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 Burundi and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sarah Menescal to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Fela Kuti,
The Litter,
The Gap Band,
Marc Almond,
Minny Pops,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Skatalites,
Bang On A Can,
The Searchers,
Gang Green,
Bronski Beat,
The Last Poets,
LL Cool J,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
Laurel Aitken,
Rotary Connection,
Albert Ayler,
Pulsallama,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Radiohead,
La Düsseldorf,
The Dead C,
a-ha,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jeff Mills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Inner City,
Shoche,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ossler,
Boogie Down Productions,
Smog,
Newcleus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Arab on Radar,
Radio Birdman,
MC5,
Yellowson,
The Fall,
Magazine,
The Barracudas,
Camberwell Now,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barbara Tucker,
D'Angelo,
New Age Steppers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Alarm Clocks,
Delta 5,
MDC,
Pet Shop Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Skriet,
Kas Product,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.