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 Liberia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ 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 Jawbox to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
The Skatalites,
World's Most,
Carl Craig,
The Move,
Avey Tare,
The Pop Group,
Blake Baxter,
B.T. Express,
Mission of Burma,
Graham Central Station,
Pere Ubu,
The Moleskins,
Banda Bassotti,
a-ha,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang Green,
Dual Sessions,
Stetsasonic,
Television,
Von Mondo,
Charles Mingus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brick,
F. McDonald,
Tommy Roe,
cv313,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Derrick Morgan,
The Toasters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Smiths,
Angry Samoans,
UT,
Leonard Cohen,
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alton Ellis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chrome,
48th St. Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nas,
Adolescents,
Electric Prunes,
OOIOO,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Monks,
ABBA,
Average White Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeff Lynne,
Lungfish,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aaron Thompson,
Stereo Dub,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.