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 Dominican Republic and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Spandau Ballet,
D'Angelo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lucky Dragons,
DNA,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Young Rascals,
OOIOO,
PIL,
Dual Sessions,
AZ,
John Coltrane,
the Association,
Peter & Gordon,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hashim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lower 48,
Roxette,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barrington Levy,
Hot Snakes,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
Stetsasonic,
David Axelrod,
Jerry's Kids,
The Associates,
Wolf Eyes,
Soft Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Andrew Hill,
Danielle Patucci,
Glambeats Corp.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grandmaster Flash,
L. Decosne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Make Up,
Lou Christie,
Jawbox,
Patti Smith,
Electric Prunes,
Mission of Burma,
the Normal,
Graham Central Station,
Rapeman,
Rakim,
Joyce Sims,
cv313,
Mo-Dettes,
Au Pairs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Funkadelic,
Ludus,
DJ Sneak,
Rufus Thomas,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.