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 Peru and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Kayak to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
The Birthday Party,
Leonard Cohen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eden Ahbez,
This Heat,
The Tremeloes,
The Doors,
Radiopuhelimet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Crispy Ambulance,
Second Layer,
Tom Boy,
Lakeside,
Jeru the Damaja,
Piero Umiliani,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cal Tjader,
Icehouse,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Yellowson,
The Velvet Underground,
KRS-One,
Joe Smooth,
Charles Mingus,
X-Ray Spex,
Jacob Miller,
DJ Style,
Flipper,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Qualms,
Pagans,
Stetsasonic,
B.T. Express,
The Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Magazine,
Agitation Free,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warren Ellis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chris Corsano,
The Leaves,
Gichy Dan,
Don Cherry,
Byron Stingily,
Visage,
Maleditus Sound,
Fear,
Patti Smith,
Ronan,
Jerry's Kids,
The Selecter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thee Headcoats,
Kas Product,
Intrusion,
Anthony Braxton,
Grauzone,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.