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 Lebanon and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro 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 Dennis Brown to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Minnie Riperton,
DNA,
Clear Light,
Royal Trux,
Amon Düül II,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Modern Lovers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Funkadelic,
Robert Hood,
The Wake,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
The Five Americans,
Groovy Waters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Motorama,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grey Daturas,
The Slits,
The Count Five,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Von Mondo,
Soft Cell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Babytalk,
Toni Rubio,
David Axelrod,
Nas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
CMW,
Theoretical Girls,
The Human League,
Unwound,
Franke,
R.M.O.,
Yaz,
Barrington Levy,
Thee Headcoats,
Accadde A,
The Slackers,
Altered Images,
Sugar Minott,
Lou Christie,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Smoke,
The Index,
Zero Boys,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Slave,
F. McDonald,
Warsaw,
Crooked Eye,
Crime,
Gang Gang Dance,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.