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 Liberia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Liaisons Dangereuses to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Depeche Mode,
Delon & Dalcan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
PIL,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
John Coltrane,
DJ Style,
The Mummies,
Oneida,
Bizarre Inc.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Donald Byrd,
Big Daddy Kane,
Don Cherry,
Pantytec,
Slave,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Toasters,
Sällskapet,
Technova,
The Selecter,
Arcadia,
Max Romeo,
The Five Americans,
Sandy B,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gang Starr,
cv313,
Heaven 17,
Skaos,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Basic Channel,
Aaron Thompson,
David Axelrod,
Sam Rivers,
L. Decosne,
The Index,
Main Source,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moss Icon,
Inner City,
Kayak,
The Fuzztones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Electric Prunes,
The Busters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joey Negro,
Glenn Branca,
The New Christs,
The Kinks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ornette Coleman,
Deadbeat,
Excepter,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.