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 Zambia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eden Ahbez to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Swell Maps,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crispy Ambulance,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Womack,
Joensuu 1685,
Kenny Larkin,
Carl Craig,
Amazonics,
The Dirtbombs,
The Moleskins,
The Vogues,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Index,
Fela Kuti,
The Neon Judgement,
The Mojo Men,
The Slackers,
Marvin Gaye,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Sherman,
The Fuzztones,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Moon,
Steve Hackett,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Flag,
The Gun Club,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sandy B,
Radiohead,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Babytalk,
Kerri Chandler,
Q and Not U,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
Susan Cadogan,
Pylon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sight & Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crooked Eye,
Pere Ubu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rapeman,
The Fortunes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bauhaus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chris Corsano,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Model 500,
Sun Ra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Moss Icon,
The Last Poets,
Pet Shop Boys,
Das Ding,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.