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 Swaziland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gun Club to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Subhumans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Metal Thangz,
Tommy Roe,
John Coltrane,
Skaos,
The Fugs,
Hardrive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aswad,
Fat Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quando Quango,
Archie Shepp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Selecter,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gladiators,
Liliput,
Camberwell Now,
Adolescents,
Gong,
Alice Coltrane,
Schoolly D,
Drexciya,
Sun Ra,
Monolake,
The Smiths,
Ornette Coleman,
New Order,
Rites of Spring,
The Associates,
Josef K,
Joe Finger,
Mark Hollis,
L. Decosne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Warsaw,
Marvin Gaye,
Vainqueur,
Clear Light,
Pantytec,
Swell Maps,
Crispian St. Peters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Count Five,
Roxette,
Lalann,
the Association,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Warren Ellis,
U.S. Maple,
The Detroit Cobras,
Magazine,
Todd Rundgren,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
The Black Dice,
Y Pants,
Agent Orange,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.