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 Indonesia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Motions to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Echospace,
Gong,
Rapeman,
Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Kurtis Blow,
New Order,
Metal Thangz,
Judy Mowatt,
Bang On A Can,
The American Breed,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
La Düsseldorf,
Mandrill,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Doors,
Althea and Donna,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Zero Boys,
Barbara Tucker,
The Evens,
Kas Product,
OOIOO,
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moby Grape,
The Knickerbockers,
Minny Pops,
Lalann,
The Sonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Star Department,
Marine Girls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Young Marble Giants,
Urselle,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Residents,
Accadde A,
Rotary Connection,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joyce Sims,
Spoonie Gee,
Circle Jerks,
The Buckinghams,
Minor Threat,
Icehouse,
Sugar Minott,
Excepter,
The Wake,
X-Ray Spex,
Lightning Bolt,
Severed Heads,
The Electric Prunes,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.