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 Bahamas and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pierre Henry to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Interpol,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gichy Dan,
Susan Cadogan,
Quantec,
Camouflage,
Darondo,
Warsaw,
Barclay James Harvest,
Colin Newman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lucky Dragons,
The Smiths,
The Fuzztones,
Andrew Hill,
Jerry's Kids,
The Doors,
Morten Harket,
FM Einheit,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Byrd,
Dave Gahan,
The Last Poets,
X-Ray Spex,
Public Enemy,
The Misunderstood,
The Evens,
F. McDonald,
The Gap Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Fire Engines,
the Sonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marine Girls,
Byron Stingily,
Organ,
Leonard Cohen,
Masters at Work,
Barbara Tucker,
UT,
The Birthday Party,
Don Cherry,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultravox,
Reuben Wilson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
China Crisis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deakin,
The Selecter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nik Kershaw,
The Count Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
D'Angelo,
Soft Cell,
Massinfluence,
Tomorrow,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.