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 Suriname and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Eric B and Rakim to the grime 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
The Moleskins,
DNA,
Faraquet,
Cameo,
Hasil Adkins,
kango's stein massive,
The Seeds,
Nirvana,
Alphaville,
Davy DMX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gichy Dan,
The Smoke,
Barry Ungar,
Kaleidoscope,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camberwell Now,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dennis Brown,
Aural Exciters,
The Walker Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rod Modell,
Cal Tjader,
Zapp,
Yaz,
Sun Ra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Robert Görl,
Rekid,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sun City Girls,
Jandek,
Bobby Sherman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Human League,
Wings,
These Immortal Souls,
Arcadia,
The Skatalites,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ice-T,
Pet Shop Boys,
D'Angelo,
Marvin Gaye,
Quando Quango,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sandy B,
Urselle,
The Searchers,
ABBA,
Yazoo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fear,
Nils Olav,
Tears for Fears,
Chrome,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.