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 Estonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Junior Murvin to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Barrington Levy,
Suicide,
Whodini,
Metal Thangz,
the Soft Cell,
Franke,
June of 44,
Yaz,
Donny Hathaway,
The Monochrome Set,
Gang Green,
Deepchord,
Khruangbin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
In Retrospect,
Freddie Wadling,
Desert Stars,
Juan Atkins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Alice Coltrane,
Groovy Waters,
Wally Richardson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anakelly,
DJ Sneak,
Godley & Creme,
Eli Mardock,
Soft Cell,
Funkadelic,
Nick Fraelich,
Man Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Television Personalities,
Mr. Review,
Rosa Yemen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fear,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brothers Johnson,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mojo Men,
The Young Rascals,
R.M.O.,
Quadrant,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Outsiders,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Qualms,
David McCallum,
The Misunderstood,
Radiohead,
The Gap Band,
Basic Channel,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.