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 Qatar and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 the Association to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
the Bar-Kays,
Eric B and Rakim,
Barrington Levy,
John Holt,
Derrick Morgan,
Bill Wells,
Newcleus,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Stooges,
Subhumans,
Wire,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Arthur Verocai,
Althea and Donna,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ornette Coleman,
Sun Ra,
Archie Shepp,
T. Rex,
Joensuu 1685,
David Bowie,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joe Smooth,
New York Dolls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marmalade,
Maleditus Sound,
Masters at Work,
Crime,
The Kinks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alton Ellis,
Josef K,
In Retrospect,
Gang Green,
Bad Manners,
Girls At Our Best!,
Isaac Hayes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nils Olav,
Lakeside,
Yellowson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Funkadelic,
Chris Corsano,
Eddi Front,
Sun City Girls,
MDC,
Camberwell Now,
Altered Images,
The Smoke,
Cecil Taylor,
Eve St. Jones,
Parry Music,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.