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 Mali and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 chamberlin 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 Alphaville to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jerry's Kids,
Bronski Beat,
Scan 7,
June Days,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wings,
K-Klass,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nick Fraelich,
Funky Four + One,
Supertramp,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skarface,
DJ Style,
the Association,
Eli Mardock,
Anakelly,
Blake Baxter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soft Cell,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marvin Gaye,
Isaac Hayes,
Von Mondo,
Deepchord,
Johnny Clarke,
Silicon Teens,
Adolescents,
Boredoms,
Blossom Toes,
Bob Dylan,
Ituana,
Rhythm & Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Agent Orange,
Darondo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Man Eating Sloth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kaleidoscope,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker,
Matthew Halsall,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Q65,
Mission of Burma,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Parry Music,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Popol Vuh,
Thee Headcoats,
Eric Copeland,
Pantaleimon,
The Mojo Men,
Lucky Dragons,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, 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.