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 United Kingdom 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 David Bowie 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 Von Mondo to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Slits. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Japan,
Soulsonic Force,
Mantronix,
Procol Harum,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fall,
Morten Harket,
The Black Dice,
Motorama,
Alison Limerick,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Los Fastidios,
R.M.O.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roxette,
The Alarm Clocks,
Monolake,
Danielle Patucci,
Lyres,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pantaleimon,
Sex Pistols,
The Sonics,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Quando Quango,
Lower 48,
Lalann,
Inner City,
kango's stein massive,
Duran Duran,
Lou Reed,
Fela Kuti,
Aswad,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Association,
Gang Starr,
Circle Jerks,
Quantec,
Slick Rick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
One Last Wish,
Banda Bassotti,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Swell Maps,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Harmonia,
Dual Sessions,
The Knickerbockers,
10cc,
Sun City Girls,
Schoolly D,
Jeru the Damaja,
Thee Headcoats,
Gichy Dan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Skatalites,
Stetsasonic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.