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 Poland and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rapeman to the rock 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Y Pants,
Eric Copeland,
Donald Byrd,
Ken Boothe,
Half Japanese,
The Velvet Underground,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jerry's Kids,
Grauzone,
Lalann,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alton Ellis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Can,
New Order,
Alison Limerick,
Bill Near,
R.M.O.,
La Düsseldorf,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Severed Heads,
Fort Wilson Riot,
China Crisis,
The Misunderstood,
Unrelated Segments,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joey Negro,
Zapp,
Underground Resistance,
Man Parrish,
The Skatalites,
Delta 5,
Lower 48,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sugar Minott,
Outsiders,
Reuben Wilson,
Bootsy Collins,
The Stooges,
Funky Four + One,
The Golliwogs,
The Fall,
Symarip,
The Blues Magoos,
Rekid,
Bobby Byrd,
Groovy Waters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Skriet,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mo-Dettes,
Adolescents,
The Black Dice,
Pantaleimon,
The Martian,
Johnny Osbourne,
Erykah Badu,
Loose Ends,
Excepter,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.