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 Toronto.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Bauhaus to the funk 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New York Dolls,
Unrelated Segments,
The Monks,
Alice Coltrane,
Susan Cadogan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Style,
Kool Moe Dee,
Moebius,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Saccharine Trust,
Oblivians,
Minor Threat,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Crime,
The Martian,
Colin Newman,
Johnny Osbourne,
Procol Harum,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Laurel Aitken,
The Tremeloes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lucky Dragons,
Hardrive,
Michelle Simonal,
Sällskapet,
Surgeon,
Peter and Kerry,
Bluetip,
Darondo,
Yellowson,
Danielle Patucci,
Scion,
Jeff Mills,
Kas Product,
Television,
The Divine Comedy,
Radio Birdman,
Reuben Wilson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scrapy,
The Zeros,
Juan Atkins,
New Order,
Pere Ubu,
Sixth Finger,
John Coltrane,
Scratch Acid,
Goldenarms,
Black Bananas,
Sam Rivers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fear,
Funky Four + One,
The Young Rascals,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.