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 Mauritania and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Quadrant to the dance 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
The Fall,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
Lungfish,
The Trojans,
The Electric Prunes,
the Human League,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gories,
Vainqueur,
Agent Orange,
Frankie Knuckles,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hoover,
Con Funk Shun,
Tropical Tobacco,
Michelle Simonal,
The Mummies,
Soft Machine,
Jeff Mills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
OOIOO,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Carl Craig,
Bauhaus,
Josef K,
Gichy Dan,
Idris Muhammad,
Public Image Ltd.,
Faraquet,
Soul II Soul,
Alton Ellis,
Tommy Roe,
MC5,
Chrome,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Roxy Music,
U.S. Maple,
Magazine,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young,
Radiohead,
Joensuu 1685,
Bang On A Can,
The Detroit Cobras,
Janne Schatter,
Gabor Szabo,
Zero Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sound,
Unwound,
Depeche Mode,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.