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 Turkmenistan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Edmonton.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Hardrive to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mummies,
Television,
The Trojans,
Vainqueur,
The Count Five,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Swans,
Steve Hackett,
Slick Rick,
Joey Negro,
In Retrospect,
Altered Images,
Average White Band,
Stetsasonic,
E-Dancer,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gang Green,
Adolescents,
Minor Threat,
8 Eyed Spy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
Laurel Aitken,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ten City,
D'Angelo,
Sex Pistols,
Accadde A,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dawn Penn,
Tommy Roe,
The Sonics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blues Magoos,
World's Most,
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Monochrome Set,
Cal Tjader,
Derrick May,
Joe Finger,
Pole,
10cc,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cybotron,
Desert Stars,
Bluetip,
Skaos,
Das Ding,
Lower 48,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Can,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Don Cherry,
Arthur Verocai,
New York Dolls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Litter,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.