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 Turkey and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 The Modern Lovers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Nirvana,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Roxy Music,
China Crisis,
Chrome,
Minnie Riperton,
Byron Stingily,
Judy Mowatt,
LL Cool J,
Guru Guru,
Boogie Down Productions,
Archie Shepp,
Kayak,
Colin Newman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scan 7,
Neu!,
Mark Hollis,
Soul II Soul,
Fatback Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
a-ha,
Curtis Mayfield,
Liliput,
Moss Icon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Durutti Column,
Fear,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
F. McDonald,
the Sonics,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Section 25,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sandy B,
Lungfish,
Pagans,
X-102,
Barbara Tucker,
Hasil Adkins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Suburban Knight,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camouflage,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Letta Mbulu,
Los Fastidios,
Public Enemy,
The Count Five,
Sonny Sharrock,
Intrusion,
Index,
E-Dancer,
The Tremeloes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Isaac Hayes,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.