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 Albania and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Mandrill to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sight & Sound,
Donald Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rekid,
Scan 7,
The Leaves,
Zero Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Duran Duran,
The Cramps,
David Axelrod,
Kurtis Blow,
Guru Guru,
Piero Umiliani,
Sun Ra,
Minny Pops,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Franke,
The Monochrome Set,
The Golliwogs,
the Soft Cell,
Ornette Coleman,
the Human League,
Alison Limerick,
Flipper,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sound Behaviour,
Bob Dylan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Livin' Joy,
Mantronix,
Gang Starr,
The Smoke,
The Busters,
Sugar Minott,
Moss Icon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quando Quango,
Faust,
Cecil Taylor,
Hardrive,
Essential Logic,
Camberwell Now,
Metal Thangz,
the Slits,
Intrusion,
Rosa Yemen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Banda Bassotti,
The Trojans,
Freddie Wadling,
Grey Daturas,
Motorama,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Dolphy,
Scientists,
The Shadows of Knight,
Skarface,
Johnny Clarke,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.