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 Tunisia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Section 25 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
EPMD,
The Five Americans,
La Düsseldorf,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Black Dice,
Brass Construction,
Average White Band,
Easy Going,
Wire,
The Associates,
Janne Schatter,
Graham Central Station,
Gong,
Bauhaus,
Fatback Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Amazonics,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tears for Fears,
The Tremeloes,
Visage,
Public Image Ltd.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dead Boys,
Radiohead,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Barracudas,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Dead C,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sight & Sound,
Fela Kuti,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Joy Division,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Babytalk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
This Heat,
Erykah Badu,
Quando Quango,
MC5,
Porter Ricks,
Bang On A Can,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fear,
Soft Cell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Patti Smith,
Yellowson,
Depeche Mode,
Theoretical Girls,
cv313,
B.T. Express,
Kurtis Blow,
Harry Pussy,
Hoover,
Das Ding,
Terry Callier,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.