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 Bangladesh and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ohio Players to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Motorama,
Quadrant,
Archie Shepp,
The Last Poets,
Sound Behaviour,
Maleditus Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hasil Adkins,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Wyatt,
The Neon Judgement,
The Beau Brummels,
Tim Buckley,
Robert Görl,
Juan Atkins,
Alice Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Stetsasonic,
Chris & Cosey,
Wire,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oblivians,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Intrusion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Peter & Gordon,
a-ha,
Rufus Thomas,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
These Immortal Souls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jeff Mills,
Prince Buster,
Delta 5,
Judy Mowatt,
the Human League,
Eurythmics,
The J.B.'s,
Yazoo,
Janne Schatter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kerri Chandler,
Isaac Hayes,
EPMD,
cv313,
The Martian,
Cymande,
Alphaville,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Grey Daturas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Erykah Badu,
David McCallum,
One Last Wish,
Funkadelic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Trojans,
Joyce Sims,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.