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 Canada and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Essential Logic to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
The Selecter,
Fluxion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Matthew Halsall,
Reuben Wilson,
Aaron Thompson,
Eden Ahbez,
Arthur Verocai,
John Foxx,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Unwound,
Suicide,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Slits,
Davy DMX,
The Raincoats,
Mantronix,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bill Wells,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Seeds,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mandrill,
Marc Almond,
Connie Case,
Zapp,
Iggy Pop,
Anthony Braxton,
X-102,
Agitation Free,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bobby Womack,
Popol Vuh,
Dead Boys,
Tom Boy,
Ohio Players,
X-101,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Electric Prunes,
Surgeon,
The Residents,
Chris & Cosey,
Dawn Penn,
Easy Going,
Camouflage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Whodini,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Swell Maps,
Blake Baxter,
Fatback Band,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.