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 Papua New Guinea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Donald Byrd to the punk 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bronski Beat,
Eden Ahbez,
Los Fastidios,
Television Personalities,
Yusef Lateef,
Sparks,
Brick,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
Accadde A,
Minny Pops,
Dawn Penn,
Chris Corsano,
Scott Walker,
Excepter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Smog,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Severed Heads,
Chrome,
Bob Dylan,
The Dirtbombs,
Underground Resistance,
Chris & Cosey,
Rufus Thomas,
Jacob Miller,
Barbara Tucker,
Niagra,
The Kinks,
Grauzone,
Magma,
Sugar Minott,
Arcadia,
F. McDonald,
The Walker Brothers,
Q and Not U,
Camberwell Now,
Alphaville,
The Sound,
Animal Collective,
The Five Americans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Peter & Gordon,
Yaz,
Joe Smooth,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Main Source,
The Golliwogs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Human League,
Supertramp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Coltrane,
Alton Ellis,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.