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 Antigua and from New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Easy Going to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Cymande,
Eric B and Rakim,
Procol Harum,
Yaz,
Main Source,
Funky Four + One,
Malaria!,
The Dirtbombs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Flag,
the Human League,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joy Division,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crime,
The Neon Judgement,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Hardrive,
The Electric Prunes,
The Remains,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rapeman,
Hashim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Moon,
Andrew Hill,
Cameo,
Connie Case,
the Sonics,
Kas Product,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Index,
Au Pairs,
Television Personalities,
Funkadelic,
Fela Kuti,
Arcadia,
Moss Icon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DJ Sneak,
Oblivians,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.