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 Togo and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 David Bowie 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 K-Klass to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
World's Most,
Drive Like Jehu,
Delon & Dalcan,
Goldenarms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crash Course in Science,
Fugazi,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lungfish,
Funkadelic,
One Last Wish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
New Age Steppers,
The Gap Band,
Fatback Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Ituana,
The American Breed,
Amon Düül II,
Erasure,
Adolescents,
Eurythmics,
The Leaves,
Buzzcocks,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sandy B,
Motorama,
Hasil Adkins,
Juan Atkins,
Bluetip,
Robert Wyatt,
New York Dolls,
The Sonics,
Janne Schatter,
Black Bananas,
Derrick Morgan,
Sight & Sound,
Niagra,
Moby Grape,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Techniques,
Dennis Brown,
The Buckinghams,
Darondo,
Eddi Front,
Porter Ricks,
Brass Construction,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kaleidoscope,
Malaria!,
DJ Style,
Carl Craig,
Black Flag,
Barbara Tucker,
The Happenings,
Crime,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.