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 Moldova and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ituana to the jazz 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Howard Jones,
Mantronix,
Pole,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Roxette,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Association,
Spoonie Gee,
Alison Limerick,
Goldenarms,
Scion,
Sight & Sound,
Deepchord,
Ronan,
Tommy Roe,
Crash Course in Science,
Marvin Gaye,
Joe Smooth,
Skaos,
Magazine,
JFA,
R.M.O.,
Make Up,
Boredoms,
Prince Buster,
Lyres,
Alton Ellis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Fugs,
Funkadelic,
The Star Department,
The Five Americans,
The Modern Lovers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Icehouse,
Junior Murvin,
The Blackbyrds,
T.S.O.L.,
Connie Case,
Nas,
Nick Fraelich,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nils Olav,
Jerry's Kids,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Negative Approach,
Sugar Minott,
Glambeats Corp.,
Toni Rubio,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.