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 Palau and from Jakarta.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Spoonie Gee to the disco 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Black Flag,
Jacob Miller,
Ice-T,
Stetsasonic,
Nirvana,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
Au Pairs,
Kenny Larkin,
Cameo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kas Product,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heaven 17,
Skaos,
Harmonia,
The Happenings,
Easy Going,
K-Klass,
Joey Negro,
Toni Rubio,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy Collins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick May,
Stereo Dub,
Tomorrow,
Rites of Spring,
Quadrant,
Sonic Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wolf Eyes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultra Naté,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Loose Ends,
The Stooges,
Unwound,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Detroit Cobras,
KRS-One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
AZ,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sound,
The Litter,
Ten City,
Fugazi,
Frankie Knuckles,
Man Parrish,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Cale,
The Zeros,
Porter Ricks,
The Blues Magoos,
Pulsallama,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.