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 Nepal and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Minnie Riperton to the electroclash 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Aswad,
The Tremeloes,
Alison Limerick,
Albert Ayler,
Echospace,
Organ,
Blake Baxter,
Sarah Menescal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
One Last Wish,
Lalann,
The Electric Prunes,
Agitation Free,
Sound Behaviour,
Rapeman,
Darondo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barry Ungar,
The Gories,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Wire,
Model 500,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Smoke,
Gabor Szabo,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
Ossler,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Skatalites,
The Toasters,
Chris Corsano,
Rosa Yemen,
Lucky Dragons,
Aural Exciters,
Yellowson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lightning Bolt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Blues Magoos,
Massinfluence,
Ronan,
The Pop Group,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.