Nice in many ways, very tasteful and well arranged. One subtle, but unignorable problem: It misses the single most important element of the funk. You are all playing on all the subdivisions all the time. While not funk I refer to this phenomena as Dream Theater Disease. The funk has a lope to it. Square subdivisions are for squares, and syncopation does not necessarily = the lump that puts the bump in your rump.
Take that same groove, but have each player try to leave spaces for each other. Literally pass around the rests at your next rehearsal and see where the pieces fall when you're not trying to hit every single mark.
The funk is about interplay, and slap does not = funk. Most of the time it actually = the exact opposite.
Try this for me. Play your basic groove figure (which is very slinky btw), and this is harder than you may think, leave out any notes that fall on a big snare hit. Let the drummer have that little spot to himself. Listen to what happens to your overall feel. It will introduce the other essential ingredient of the funk recipe: silence
That sample has some great ingredients, they just need to be stirred up a bit. It can only take a moment to "get it", but it can take a life time to master.
In his best Prince voice: "I'm bigfatbass. I'm old and funky!"
