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 Serbia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Zeros to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet 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 synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Theoretical Girls,
Roxy Music,
Rotary Connection,
World's Most,
Excepter,
Gil Scott Heron,
China Crisis,
The Young Rascals,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lower 48,
Bizarre Inc.,
Make Up,
Soulsonic Force,
X-102,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stereo Dub,
the Swans,
The Human League,
a-ha,
the Fania All-Stars,
K-Klass,
Mad Mike,
Harmonia,
Underground Resistance,
Ornette Coleman,
Carl Craig,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Move,
The Gladiators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tim Buckley,
10cc,
Eden Ahbez,
Alton Ellis,
Pantaleimon,
Rites of Spring,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thompson Twins,
Livin' Joy,
Barbara Tucker,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gabor Szabo,
Iggy Pop,
The Knickerbockers,
Todd Rundgren,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mark Hollis,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultravox,
Eric Dolphy,
Cameo,
Sugar Minott,
Skarface,
Lindisfarne,
Franke,
Maurizio,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.