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 Kiribati and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
MC5,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ken Boothe,
The Raincoats,
Faust,
Barrington Levy,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Jeff Lynne,
The Walker Brothers,
Erasure,
Moby Grape,
The Happenings,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bauhaus,
Slave,
The Slits,
Rosa Yemen,
the Normal,
The Knickerbockers,
Swell Maps,
The Kinks,
Scion,
JFA,
K-Klass,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soft Cell,
Oblivians,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aswad,
The Neon Judgement,
Don Cherry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bill Near,
Visage,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman,
The Moody Blues,
Black Bananas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Technova,
The Leaves,
The Trojans,
Blake Baxter,
Boogie Down Productions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
ABC,
Erykah Badu,
Jimmy McGriff,
These Immortal Souls,
F. McDonald,
Yazoo,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tommy Roe,
Accadde A,
Crime,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick May,
Bad Manners,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.