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 Cambodia and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 James White and The Blacks to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Section 25,
Mo-Dettes,
Alton Ellis,
The Moleskins,
The Smoke,
Chris Corsano,
The Shadows of Knight,
Erykah Badu,
The Victims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
Carl Craig,
Oneida,
Minny Pops,
Hardrive,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Michelle Simonal,
The Golliwogs,
David Bowie,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rakim,
Ossler,
Oblivians,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Moon,
Monolake,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Clarke,
Smog,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Zapp,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scott Walker,
The Raincoats,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Selecter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Whodini,
Porter Ricks,
Josef K,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ronnie Foster,
Dark Day,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bluetip,
Bill Near,
Circle Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joyce Sims,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Coltrane,
Sonic Youth,
The Cowsills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Angels of Light,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.