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 Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Cal Tjader to the electroclash 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sight & Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Fire Engines,
Livin' Joy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Intrusion,
Joey Negro,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Trumans Water,
The Names,
KRS-One,
Donny Hathaway,
Girls At Our Best!,
New Order,
The Velvet Underground,
D'Angelo,
Basic Channel,
Eve St. Jones,
Pulsallama,
Crispy Ambulance,
Groovy Waters,
Shoche,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Max Romeo,
Clear Light,
Duran Duran,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker,
Sound Behaviour,
Sparks,
Masters at Work,
Lalann,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Christie,
Cluster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Don Cherry,
Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Görl,
Slave,
X-102,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minor Threat,
Symarip,
Heaven 17,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.