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 Iraq and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Deepchord to the jazz 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Massinfluence,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Easy Going,
The Angels of Light,
Au Pairs,
Visage,
Man Eating Sloth,
Joy Division,
Mr. Review,
Anthony Braxton,
Goldenarms,
Junior Murvin,
Oblivians,
Skriet,
Desert Stars,
Grey Daturas,
Black Sheep,
The Monochrome Set,
Yellowson,
World's Most,
The Black Dice,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
Camouflage,
Sixth Finger,
Y Pants,
Altered Images,
Joyce Sims,
Aaron Thompson,
Skaos,
The Index,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
China Crisis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wally Richardson,
Schoolly D,
T.S.O.L.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Country Teasers,
Minutemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Associates,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Foxx,
Avey Tare,
Kevin Saunderson,
Quadrant,
Bang On A Can,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barbara Tucker,
Clear Light,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mission of Burma,
The Gories,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Niagra,
Arthur Verocai,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.