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 Armenia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Banda Bassotti to the jazz 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Skaos,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mark Hollis,
Tubeway Army,
Patti Smith,
Essential Logic,
Lightning Bolt,
Royal Trux,
Barry Ungar,
Radiohead,
Talk Talk,
Kurtis Blow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Piero Umiliani,
The New Christs,
a-ha,
Monks,
Joe Smooth,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Cowsills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Spandau Ballet,
Cymande,
The Litter,
H. Thieme,
Roy Ayers,
The Slits,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fluxion,
Derrick May,
Kenny Larkin,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Trojans,
Donald Byrd,
The Cure,
Nas,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Pop Group,
Slick Rick,
Monolake,
Jandek,
Crash Course in Science,
Delta 5,
Roger Hodgson,
The Slackers,
The Wake,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pylon,
The Doors,
The Moody Blues,
Parry Music,
Goldenarms,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Soulsonic Force,
Hashim,
CMW,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
JFA,
Circle Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gichy Dan,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.