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 Togo and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Gregory Isaacs,
EPMD,
Warsaw,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pole,
Gang Starr,
Heaven 17,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young,
Youth Brigade,
Bobby Sherman,
Bootsy Collins,
Tres Demented,
The Vogues,
This Heat,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerri Chandler,
The Monochrome Set,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aloha Tigers,
Desert Stars,
The Monks,
Eve St. Jones,
New Age Steppers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cameo,
Crime,
Donny Hathaway,
The Leaves,
Scientists,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DJ Sneak,
Sly & The Family Stone,
10cc,
the Sonics,
Mantronix,
Banda Bassotti,
Ultravox,
Lee Hazlewood,
Symarip,
The Happenings,
Barbara Tucker,
Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Metal Thangz,
Vainqueur,
Davy DMX,
Judy Mowatt,
Soulsonic Force,
John Foxx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Finger,
Stereo Dub,
Boz Scaggs,
the Germs,
Bauhaus,
Derrick May,
Swans,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.