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 India and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Vainqueur to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sixth Finger,
Piero Umiliani,
The Angels of Light,
Gabor Szabo,
Eddi Front,
The Monochrome Set,
Depeche Mode,
Livin' Joy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Copeland,
Max Romeo,
New Age Steppers,
Second Layer,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Skaos,
The Electric Prunes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
MC5,
Q65,
DNA,
DJ Style,
Main Source,
The Gun Club,
Monolake,
Blossom Toes,
The Seeds,
Sex Pistols,
Pole,
The Happenings,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fat Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Make Up,
Robert Görl,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wings,
Mary Jane Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
The Stooges,
Warren Ellis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gang of Four,
Funky Four + One,
Barry Ungar,
Zero Boys,
Colin Newman,
The Saints,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sugar Minott,
Agent Orange,
The Gories,
Underground Resistance,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.