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 Syria and from Mumbai.
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 Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 Eric Copeland to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Janne Schatter,
Tears for Fears,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Coltrane,
Masters at Work,
Jerry's Kids,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gun Club,
Kas Product,
Dark Day,
Maurizio,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Swell Maps,
China Crisis,
Funky Four + One,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scion,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bizarre Inc.,
The J.B.'s,
X-102,
World's Most,
Interpol,
Television,
Brass Construction,
The Pop Group,
Tommy Roe,
R.M.O.,
Traffic Nightmare,
Reuben Wilson,
Blancmange,
Wolf Eyes,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Association,
Leonard Cohen,
Nirvana,
The Zeros,
Echospace,
D'Angelo,
Nik Kershaw,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
The Leaves,
The Evens,
The Golliwogs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Zero Boys,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Robert Wyatt,
Qualms,
The Kinks,
Skarface,
Fugazi,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pulsallama,
Popol Vuh,
New Age Steppers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.