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 Ireland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Swell Maps to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
The Invisible,
Black Bananas,
Panda Bear,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tropical Tobacco,
The J.B.'s,
Andrew Hill,
JFA,
Lower 48,
Gang Green,
Peter & Gordon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sixth Finger,
The Leaves,
Skarface,
James White and The Blacks,
Ornette Coleman,
Agent Orange,
Kaleidoscope,
Judy Mowatt,
Little Man,
Tubeway Army,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tim Buckley,
The Birthday Party,
Organ,
Brass Construction,
Barrington Levy,
Davy DMX,
The Fortunes,
Letta Mbulu,
Tres Demented,
Minnie Riperton,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fire Engines,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Echospace,
The Beau Brummels,
The Zeros,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Television Personalities,
Sällskapet,
Harry Pussy,
Bush Tetras,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalann,
Country Teasers,
Dawn Penn,
Slick Rick,
Swell Maps,
Duran Duran,
The Wake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.