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 Cuba and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Peter and Kerry to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
David Axelrod,
Eli Mardock,
Barbara Tucker,
This Heat,
Jerry's Kids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Durutti Column,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pole,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Zapp,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Oblivians,
Josef K,
Duran Duran,
ABC,
PIL,
Bootsy Collins,
The Move,
Public Enemy,
Slave,
The Blackbyrds,
Electric Prunes,
Wings,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Excepter,
Half Japanese,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mad Mike,
Masters at Work,
Newcleus,
Susan Cadogan,
Y Pants,
Ludus,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Cowsills,
DJ Style,
Can,
Minny Pops,
The Dead C,
Nik Kershaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultra Naté,
Lower 48,
The Pretty Things,
Maurizio,
Porter Ricks,
Loose Ends,
The Kinks,
Lungfish,
Black Pus,
Dennis Brown,
The Fortunes,
Radiohead,
Crash Course in Science,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ronnie Foster,
Joe Smooth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Aaron Thompson,
Harry Pussy,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.