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 Cambodia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Theoretical Girls to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marshall Jefferson,
James White and The Blacks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Althea and Donna,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Index,
Donny Hathaway,
PIL,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Hoover,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soul II Soul,
Heaven 17,
Essential Logic,
Maurizio,
Bronski Beat,
The Knickerbockers,
Scientists,
UT,
X-101,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
kango's stein massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Swell Maps,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tres Demented,
Pulsallama,
Fatback Band,
Silicon Teens,
Pagans,
Stetsasonic,
cv313,
Bootsy Collins,
Thee Headcoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Count Five,
The Cure,
Underground Resistance,
Interpol,
the Soft Cell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
Lou Christie,
Television Personalities,
Index,
Roxy Music,
The Stooges,
Fat Boys,
Ponytail,
Boredoms,
The Mojo Men,
Bob Dylan,
Clear Light,
Godley & Creme,
Camouflage,
Make Up,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
Sällskapet,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.