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 Slovakia and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the funk 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerrie Biddell,
The United States of America,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
8 Eyed Spy,
Quadrant,
Reuben Wilson,
Newcleus,
Boz Scaggs,
CMW,
Sparks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Electric Prunes,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Sonics,
Roy Ayers,
Amon Düül,
Marcia Griffiths,
LL Cool J,
Schoolly D,
Chrome,
Kayak,
Quando Quango,
The Gap Band,
Radiohead,
Lucky Dragons,
Rapeman,
Vladislav Delay,
David Axelrod,
The Barracudas,
These Immortal Souls,
Cymande,
The Real Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Fugs,
the Bar-Kays,
Todd Rundgren,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deadbeat,
Mission of Burma,
Y Pants,
Magazine,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobby Byrd,
Ultravox,
Black Moon,
Maurizio,
Scratch Acid,
the Slits,
Letta Mbulu,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gerry Rafferty,
Guru Guru,
Drexciya,
Howard Jones,
Unrelated Segments,
Von Mondo,
Soul Sonic Force,
The American Breed,
Section 25,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.