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 Uruguay and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar 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 Agitation Free to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Bobby Womack,
Severed Heads,
Brand Nubian,
Neil Young,
The Velvet Underground,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Swell Maps,
Gang Green,
Glenn Branca,
Andrew Hill,
Cheater Slicks,
The Motions,
Amon Düül II,
Iggy Pop,
Stiv Bators,
The Angels of Light,
The Gories,
Interpol,
Jeff Mills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Thompson Twins,
Connie Case,
Shuggie Otis,
Gang Starr,
Mission of Burma,
The Cowsills,
The Gladiators,
Fat Boys,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kas Product,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Standells,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Average White Band,
Y Pants,
Nick Fraelich,
the Association,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Freddie Wadling,
Can,
John Lydon,
Suburban Knight,
The Electric Prunes,
Eddi Front,
ABC,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Toni Rubio,
The Toasters,
Blancmange,
Con Funk Shun,
Duran Duran,
48th St. Collective,
Laurel Aitken,
New Order,
This Heat,
Depeche Mode,
The Misunderstood,
MC5,
Drexciya,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.