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 Gabon and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Boogie Down Productions to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Lakeside,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Monochrome Set,
10cc,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Alison Limerick,
Pierre Henry,
Excepter,
Bobby Byrd,
Lyres,
The Music Machine,
This Heat,
Amon Düül,
Rekid,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moebius,
X-101,
The Slits,
Trumans Water,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Essential Logic,
Susan Cadogan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maleditus Sound,
Black Sheep,
JFA,
Rapeman,
The Victims,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Womack,
New York Dolls,
ABBA,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Newcleus,
Suburban Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marvin Gaye,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Whodini,
Public Enemy,
Lalann,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Zeros,
The Searchers,
Gang Gang Dance,
B.T. Express,
Blake Baxter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Derrick Morgan,
Steve Hackett,
Stiv Bators,
Fluxion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.