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 Netherlands and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the dance 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Pus,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
JFA,
The Offenders,
Steve Hackett,
Ultra Naté,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
Con Funk Shun,
Kerrie Biddell,
Crash Course in Science,
Prince Buster,
Radio Birdman,
The Neon Judgement,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soulsonic Force,
Skarface,
AZ,
Moss Icon,
Hardrive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Bar-Kays,
X-101,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Associates,
Ornette Coleman,
Visage,
Rakim,
Moby Grape,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mandrill,
The Fugs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Khruangbin,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Association,
Roxy Music,
Smog,
Dennis Brown,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sarah Menescal,
Can,
Lakeside,
John Cale,
Derrick May,
Rites of Spring,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül II,
Mad Mike,
FM Einheit,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.