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 Grenada and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro 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 Judy Mowatt to the dance 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 Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ohio Players,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radiohead,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Todd Terry,
Todd Rundgren,
Talk Talk,
Danielle Patucci,
Warren Ellis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eden Ahbez,
Erykah Badu,
Amazonics,
The Blackbyrds,
Patti Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Malaria!,
Index,
The Gories,
Moebius,
Funky Four + One,
Lakeside,
Yusef Lateef,
Bad Manners,
Blancmange,
The Cure,
The Happenings,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Easy Going,
Robert Hood,
Black Pus,
The Grass Roots,
Young Marble Giants,
Man Parrish,
Stiv Bators,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aaron Thompson,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultra Naté,
The Gladiators,
Schoolly D,
Neu!,
Ralphi Rosario,
Henry Cow,
June Days,
Motorama,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Basic Channel,
The Kinks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pulsallama,
Tom Boy,
The Birthday Party,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.