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 Mauritius and from Lagos.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Girls At Our Best! to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Wings,
Soul II Soul,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Flag,
Zero Boys,
The Music Machine,
Faraquet,
Nirvana,
The Buckinghams,
Maleditus Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Dark Day,
UT,
Radio Birdman,
Interpol,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lalann,
Mad Mike,
Prince Buster,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nas,
Boredoms,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fortunes,
Janne Schatter,
Basic Channel,
Black Pus,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Animal Collective,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Girls At Our Best!,
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Bananas,
John Holt,
Joe Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Blancmange,
The Gun Club,
Brick,
Ludus,
Public Enemy,
Reagan Youth,
Moebius,
The Misunderstood,
Suicide,
The Mummies,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Half Japanese,
The Divine Comedy,
Swans,
The Blues Magoos,
Franke,
the Association,
This Heat,
Kenny Larkin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.