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 Nepal and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Alton Ellis to the rock 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boz Scaggs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Count Five,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric Copeland,
Alton Ellis,
Newcleus,
Desert Stars,
Terry Callier,
Unrelated Segments,
Godley & Creme,
Drexciya,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Swans,
Rhythm & Sound,
David Axelrod,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Misunderstood,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Bar-Kays,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Robert Hood,
Suburban Knight,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scientists,
Gang of Four,
KRS-One,
The Mojo Men,
Patti Smith,
Yellowson,
The Moleskins,
Tommy Roe,
Al Stewart,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quantec,
The Victims,
Glenn Branca,
Tom Boy,
The Gladiators,
Sparks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funky Four + One,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vainqueur,
Depeche Mode,
Grey Daturas,
Ice-T,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Make Up,
Stetsasonic,
Dark Day,
B.T. Express,
Bluetip,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.