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 Nigeria and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the funk 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
John Lydon,
Pulsallama,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marshall Jefferson,
Patti Smith,
Magma,
Chris Corsano,
Letta Mbulu,
Mars,
H. Thieme,
David McCallum,
Jacob Miller,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Morten Harket,
The Doors,
Alton Ellis,
Funkadelic,
Kaleidoscope,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Q and Not U,
The Angels of Light,
Nas,
ABC,
Kerri Chandler,
Kenny Larkin,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sixth Finger,
Q65,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Barrington Levy,
Dennis Brown,
The Beau Brummels,
The Blues Magoos,
Gang Starr,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Boredoms,
The Zeros,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultra Naté,
Sällskapet,
Brass Construction,
Jacques Brel,
Kas Product,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rakim,
Agitation Free,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Monolake,
E-Dancer,
KRS-One,
June Days,
The Kinks,
Black Bananas,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Byron Stingily,
T. Rex,
Eric Dolphy,
Maurizio,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.