Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kenya and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Judy Mowatt to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
The Angels of Light,
Oneida,
Bronski Beat,
Sun Ra,
Skriet,
The Fuzztones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sight & Sound,
Easy Going,
Schoolly D,
Gregory Isaacs,
La Düsseldorf,
The Tremeloes,
Rufus Thomas,
EPMD,
David Bowie,
Clear Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Brass Construction,
Judy Mowatt,
The Trojans,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Warsaw,
The Gladiators,
Fat Boys,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Essential Logic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Niagra,
Scratch Acid,
Flash Fearless,
Stereo Dub,
10cc,
Main Source,
The Moleskins,
Interpol,
Youth Brigade,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Christie,
The Invisible,
Angry Samoans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Knickerbockers,
The Divine Comedy,
a-ha,
Roxette,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Misunderstood,
Quantec,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joey Negro,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
ABC,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.