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 Netherlands and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Man Parrish to the techno 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Anakelly,
MDC,
Moss Icon,
Yaz,
Tommy Roe,
Kenny Larkin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
R.M.O.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Suburban Knight,
Monolake,
Skarface,
Yellowson,
New Order,
Jesper Dahlback,
Darondo,
DNA,
Slave,
Scratch Acid,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantaleimon,
Radio Birdman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Aloha Tigers,
Minnie Riperton,
Patti Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Leonard Cohen,
Peter & Gordon,
Rakim,
Prince Buster,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fatback Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
The United States of America,
Crime,
Sandy B,
David Bowie,
Soul II Soul,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dorothy Ashby,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dead Boys,
Accadde A,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Red Krayola,
Ornette Coleman,
Jacques Brel,
Bush Tetras,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Little Man,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wings,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.