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 Guinea and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Sonics to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
The Litter,
Shuggie Otis,
Gabor Szabo,
KRS-One,
Deadbeat,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Sonics,
The Black Dice,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bluetip,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
LL Cool J,
Jandek,
Drexciya,
Mr. Review,
X-Ray Spex,
The Moody Blues,
MDC,
Bobby Byrd,
Henry Cow,
Arthur Verocai,
Howard Jones,
Sarah Menescal,
Grauzone,
Public Enemy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scrapy,
Eurythmics,
Altered Images,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Dirtbombs,
The Mojo Men,
Todd Rundgren,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sixth Finger,
Cluster,
Bill Wells,
Gichy Dan,
Massinfluence,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Royal Trux,
Marvin Gaye,
Mars,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rotary Connection,
Boogie Down Productions,
Outsiders,
Trumans Water,
Wally Richardson,
The Remains,
Max Romeo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dark Day,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
Al Stewart,
Los Fastidios,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.