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 Grenada and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Mantronix to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
The Tremeloes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Matthew Halsall,
Infiniti,
Monolake,
Lou Reed,
Minor Threat,
The Standells,
Donald Byrd,
Albert Ayler,
The Young Rascals,
James White and The Blacks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dead Boys,
Siglo XX,
Jeff Lynne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Litter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Red Krayola,
Nirvana,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Godley & Creme,
The Smiths,
Bauhaus,
Danielle Patucci,
Marshall Jefferson,
Funky Four + One,
Byron Stingily,
Cal Tjader,
The Pretty Things,
The Fortunes,
Kenny Larkin,
Jerry's Kids,
Prince Buster,
Lightning Bolt,
Boz Scaggs,
Khruangbin,
The Techniques,
Altered Images,
Kool Moe Dee,
cv313,
Pulsallama,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Invisible,
The Saints,
Television Personalities,
Los Fastidios,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobbi Humphrey,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dennis Brown,
The Gap Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Basic Channel,
Crooked Eye,
Bob Dylan,
Banda Bassotti,
The Stooges,
Deakin,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.