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 India and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Anthony Braxton to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Cal Tjader,
The Last Poets,
Saccharine Trust,
Rakim,
The Angels of Light,
Icehouse,
Interpol,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Happenings,
Pole,
Fatback Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yaz,
Amon Düül,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Janne Schatter,
Eric Copeland,
The Divine Comedy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oneida,
Amazonics,
the Bar-Kays,
Kayak,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Doors,
Bush Tetras,
Freddie Wadling,
Leonard Cohen,
Letta Mbulu,
10cc,
Lucky Dragons,
KRS-One,
Junior Murvin,
Anakelly,
Soulsonic Force,
Gastr Del Sol,
Das Ding,
New Age Steppers,
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Davy DMX,
Matthew Bourne,
Goldenarms,
Robert Hood,
The Litter,
the Normal,
These Immortal Souls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mantronix,
Bobby Byrd,
Soul Sonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aaron Thompson,
Yellowson,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.