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 Argentina and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Whodini to the funk 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Deakin,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nils Olav,
Suicide,
The Buckinghams,
Motorama,
Marmalade,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Sherman,
Sugar Minott,
The Gun Club,
DJ Style,
June of 44,
The Blackbyrds,
Deadbeat,
Hashim,
Brand Nubian,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
Carl Craig,
Stiv Bators,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Urselle,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maurizio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Todd Rundgren,
The Trojans,
Echospace,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dead Boys,
The Remains,
Stetsasonic,
Rotary Connection,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tomorrow,
The Gories,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ludus,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fela Kuti,
The Residents,
Organ,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bronski Beat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Subhumans,
Amon Düül,
MDC,
Quadrant,
Stereo Dub,
Dawn Penn,
Simply Red,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.