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 Jamaica and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Jakarta.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Saccharine Trust to the electroclash 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord 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 linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Leaves,
Kurtis Blow,
June of 44,
Piero Umiliani,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suburban Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeru the Damaja,
Godley & Creme,
Moss Icon,
World's Most,
Fear,
Slick Rick,
The Sonics,
DNA,
Skriet,
Joe Smooth,
Bobby Womack,
Bob Dylan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Tim Buckley,
Boz Scaggs,
Ralphi Rosario,
X-101,
Pagans,
Cheater Slicks,
Angry Samoans,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moody Blues,
Unrelated Segments,
The Monochrome Set,
48th St. Collective,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Symarip,
The Names,
T.S.O.L.,
Tubeway Army,
James White and The Blacks,
Funkadelic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Negative Approach,
Babytalk,
The Toasters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Finger,
Junior Murvin,
Main Source,
Marshall Jefferson,
One Last Wish,
Crash Course in Science,
Hot Snakes,
The Young Rascals,
AZ,
Soul Sonic Force,
Inner City,
Stockholm Monsters,
Whodini,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.