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 Belgium and from Spokane.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 The Pop Group to the punk 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Babytalk,
Technova,
Althea and Donna,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nirvana,
Groovy Waters,
The Fugs,
ABC,
The Real Kids,
Parry Music,
Howard Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
Idris Muhammad,
Marvin Gaye,
Hardrive,
Black Flag,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Simply Red,
Franke,
The Moody Blues,
The Remains,
Ice-T,
Joyce Sims,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sam Rivers,
Ohio Players,
The Angels of Light,
Skarface,
Juan Atkins,
Soul II Soul,
Byron Stingily,
The Searchers,
Mad Mike,
Eric Dolphy,
China Crisis,
Ronan,
The Motions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
U.S. Maple,
Eric B and Rakim,
X-101,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiohead,
Lebanon Hanover,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Teasers,
Eden Ahbez,
Aswad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hashim,
Gong,
Crispy Ambulance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pylon,
The Martian,
Fela Kuti,
E-Dancer,
Jeff Lynne,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.