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 Panama 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bootsy Collins to the rap 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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camouflage,
Vainqueur,
DJ Sneak,
Panda Bear,
the Association,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Swell Maps,
Funky Four + One,
Agent Orange,
Country Teasers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Gap Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Residents,
The Techniques,
The Monochrome Set,
Stiv Bators,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ronan,
The Cowsills,
Eric Copeland,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Donny Hathaway,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Halsall,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Robert Wyatt,
Barrington Levy,
Pierre Henry,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Divine Comedy,
The Barracudas,
Nick Fraelich,
Erasure,
Technova,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bush Tetras,
Connie Case,
Erykah Badu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Excepter,
Sällskapet,
Half Japanese,
Terry Callier,
The Invisible,
Lucky Dragons,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Chris Corsano,
Joey Negro,
Scan 7,
Alphaville,
John Cale,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Skarface,
Negative Approach,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.