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 Egypt and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Minny Pops to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Organ,
Faust,
Amon Düül,
Japan,
Erykah Badu,
Livin' Joy,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlback,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pole,
Cymande,
E-Dancer,
Black Moon,
Ossler,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kool Moe Dee,
Spoonie Gee,
The Pretty Things,
Inner City,
The Move,
Ronnie Foster,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
Lou Reed,
Lightning Bolt,
Yusef Lateef,
Terry Callier,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Max Romeo,
The Barracudas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Reuben Wilson,
Fear,
Swans,
Duran Duran,
the Human League,
Cluster,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Sherman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Moby Grape,
Michelle Simonal,
Tears for Fears,
Aloha Tigers,
Intrusion,
Unwound,
Lindisfarne,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jacob Miller,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Robert Görl,
Letta Mbulu,
Maleditus Sound,
Bluetip,
The Victims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-102,
The Gladiators,
Severed Heads,
La Düsseldorf,
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.