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 Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Collins to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Gichy Dan,
Piero Umiliani,
World's Most,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jacob Miller,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roy Ayers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Q65,
The Evens,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Doors,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
kango's stein massive,
Mandrill,
The Music Machine,
Junior Murvin,
Fat Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sonic Youth,
Television,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
The Monochrome Set,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Smiths,
Sex Pistols,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Oblivians,
Nas,
Unwound,
The Fugs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sandy B,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Public Enemy,
Amon Düül,
The Electric Prunes,
Kayak,
Jandek,
Bluetip,
Erykah Badu,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
Vladislav Delay,
Deakin,
Zero Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Liliput,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Young Marble Giants,
The Move,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Newcleus,
The Remains,
Cabaret Voltaire,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.