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 Suriname and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord 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 Chrome 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Yusef Lateef,
The Slackers,
Rod Modell,
The J.B.'s,
Dennis Brown,
Panda Bear,
The Standells,
The Cowsills,
Gabor Szabo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Infiniti,
Letta Mbulu,
Matthew Bourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Holt,
Hoover,
Jerry's Kids,
The Seeds,
Mo-Dettes,
The Angels of Light,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fear,
Jacob Miller,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Mojo Men,
Yaz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Zeros,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gap Band,
Fluxion,
Joe Finger,
Joy Division,
The Martian,
David Bowie,
Television Personalities,
The Remains,
Deakin,
The Victims,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Erykah Badu,
Roxette,
Parry Music,
the Association,
James White and The Blacks,
OOIOO,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dark Day,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sixth Finger,
The Pretty Things,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scrapy,
KRS-One,
The Modern Lovers,
The Real Kids,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.