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 Switzerland and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes 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 Surgeon to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
The Neon Judgement,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fatback Band,
Pole,
Symarip,
Nirvana,
Aural Exciters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Michelle Simonal,
Oneida,
Davy DMX,
Scratch Acid,
Blake Baxter,
The Invisible,
Animal Collective,
June Days,
Connie Case,
Cal Tjader,
This Heat,
Television Personalities,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camberwell Now,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sonics,
Zero Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Lungfish,
Bootsy Collins,
Model 500,
David Bowie,
Tim Buckley,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Monks,
Rakim,
Tres Demented,
Cheater Slicks,
Agent Orange,
Scion,
The Tremeloes,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
Darondo,
Nick Fraelich,
Al Stewart,
Vainqueur,
Frankie Knuckles,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gap Band,
Camouflage,
Visage,
One Last Wish,
Crooked Eye,
Ohio Players,
The Victims,
Little Man,
F. McDonald,
Iggy Pop,
Monks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.