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 Turkey and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bobby Womack to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Excepter,
The Blues Magoos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donny Hathaway,
Mandrill,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Bar-Kays,
Ornette Coleman,
Wally Richardson,
Television,
The Fuzztones,
Public Image Ltd.,
Unwound,
Radiohead,
Crime,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lucky Dragons,
China Crisis,
Neil Young,
Altered Images,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Average White Band,
Dawn Penn,
Index,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Wyatt,
The Evens,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pole,
John Holt,
In Retrospect,
Agent Orange,
Aural Exciters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dave Gahan,
kango's stein massive,
Gang of Four,
The Cure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Last Poets,
David Bowie,
Andrew Hill,
The Neon Judgement,
Franke,
Sarah Menescal,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Wells,
The Electric Prunes,
Shuggie Otis,
The Martian,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Near,
H. Thieme,
Barrington Levy,
The Motions,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.