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 Monaco and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Al Stewart 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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Quadrant,
The Buckinghams,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Green,
Symarip,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Style,
8 Eyed Spy,
Loose Ends,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Minutemen,
Sun City Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
Oneida,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lindisfarne,
Brothers Johnson,
Porter Ricks,
The Gap Band,
The Last Poets,
Michelle Simonal,
The Electric Prunes,
Quantec,
Suburban Knight,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Arcadia,
Camberwell Now,
Scratch Acid,
KRS-One,
This Heat,
Mandrill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Basic Channel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Outsiders,
Lyres,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mars,
Visage,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gastr Del Sol,
X-102,
Pussy Galore,
Henry Cow,
Eddi Front,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Second Layer,
Cybotron,
EPMD,
Spandau Ballet,
Eli Mardock,
Peter and Kerry,
Harry Pussy,
Fluxion,
U.S. Maple,
Scan 7,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.