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 Singapore and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sun City Girls to the punk 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
Main Source,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young,
Country Teasers,
The Busters,
David Axelrod,
Fat Boys,
Jeff Mills,
The Slackers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Anthony Braxton,
The Last Poets,
Unwound,
The Searchers,
June Days,
Marc Almond,
Supertramp,
The Cure,
E-Dancer,
Stiv Bators,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
Cluster,
Soft Machine,
Sonic Youth,
New Age Steppers,
Connie Case,
Smog,
Max Romeo,
Judy Mowatt,
Cameo,
Crime,
Rakim,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oblivians,
The Fuzztones,
The Five Americans,
Skarface,
Prince Buster,
The Index,
The Buckinghams,
Susan Cadogan,
the Normal,
Television Personalities,
The Offenders,
Dave Gahan,
Sun Ra,
Brothers Johnson,
Sound Behaviour,
Siglo XX,
Kayak,
The Music Machine,
Erykah Badu,
Negative Approach,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.