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 Costa Rica and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Icehouse to the funk 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Scott Walker,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wasted Youth,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cecil Taylor,
Aaron Thompson,
The Pop Group,
Ornette Coleman,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Music Machine,
Sugar Minott,
Minnie Riperton,
Thompson Twins,
Sarah Menescal,
Shuggie Otis,
Ultravox,
Archie Shepp,
Spoonie Gee,
Liliput,
ABC,
Gichy Dan,
Massinfluence,
Swans,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tears for Fears,
Index,
Urselle,
Patti Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Sun Ra,
MC5,
Harry Pussy,
Drexciya,
Joey Negro,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Mojo Men,
Alphaville,
CMW,
Icehouse,
Crispy Ambulance,
Girls At Our Best!,
Laurel Aitken,
Yaz,
Eric Copeland,
The Move,
Robert Görl,
Altered Images,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Byron Stingily,
cv313,
Ultimate Spinach,
Con Funk Shun,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Idris Muhammad,
Skarface,
Lakeside,
Underground Resistance,
Arab on Radar,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.