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 Lyon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 the Fania All-Stars 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
China Crisis,
Charles Mingus,
Michelle Simonal,
The Tremeloes,
Toni Rubio,
Liliput,
Make Up,
JFA,
Connie Case,
K-Klass,
Quantec,
Unrelated Segments,
Grey Daturas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Severed Heads,
Graham Central Station,
AZ,
Country Teasers,
Carl Craig,
CMW,
The Fugs,
Chris & Cosey,
Aloha Tigers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Infiniti,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roy Ayers,
Motorama,
The Cramps,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gichy Dan,
The Pretty Things,
Rapeman,
Roxette,
Los Fastidios,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Lee Hazlewood,
Glenn Branca,
The Zeros,
Loose Ends,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dave Gahan,
Goldenarms,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Divine Comedy,
Blossom Toes,
Trumans Water,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
H. Thieme,
Nik Kershaw,
Bill Wells,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gong,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nico,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.