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 Tajikistan and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron 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 Con Funk Shun to the dance 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Spoonie Gee,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doors,
Vainqueur,
Quando Quango,
The J.B.'s,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Move,
The Young Rascals,
Bauhaus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ornette Coleman,
Panda Bear,
Glenn Branca,
Joyce Sims,
F. McDonald,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kayak,
The Monks,
FM Einheit,
Blossom Toes,
Derrick May,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Associates,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantytec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rites of Spring,
Underground Resistance,
Ultimate Spinach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
Chris Corsano,
Little Man,
Faust,
Marmalade,
Janne Schatter,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Martian,
Cheater Slicks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed,
Davy DMX,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Robert Görl,
Patti Smith,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Moody Blues,
Trumans Water,
Basic Channel,
Alice Coltrane,
Delon & Dalcan,
DJ Style,
Slick Rick,
The Misunderstood,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.