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 Lithuania and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lille.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lalo Schifrin to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Reed,
Erasure,
Japan,
The Gories,
Interpol,
The Skatalites,
The Cure,
Liliput,
Albert Ayler,
The American Breed,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
June Days,
Monks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sonny Sharrock,
Connie Case,
Shuggie Otis,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Real Kids,
The Invisible,
Pharoah Sanders,
Thee Headcoats,
One Last Wish,
The Golliwogs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pet Shop Boys,
Supertramp,
Cecil Taylor,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pretty Things,
MDC,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-101,
Reuben Wilson,
X-102,
Roxette,
Gang Gang Dance,
Intrusion,
Chrome,
Wolf Eyes,
Neu!,
Marcia Griffiths,
Slave,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tim Buckley,
John Lydon,
Can,
Sam Rivers,
Ohio Players,
Newcleus,
DJ Style,
the Bar-Kays,
Underground Resistance,
Livin' Joy,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.