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 Yemen and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Quando Quango to the rap 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Los Fastidios,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Motions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Moss Icon,
D'Angelo,
Steve Hackett,
The Red Krayola,
the Germs,
Lungfish,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang of Four,
Fad Gadget,
Adolescents,
Harry Pussy,
Public Enemy,
This Heat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Saints,
Cluster,
Silicon Teens,
Sonny Sharrock,
Morten Harket,
The Modern Lovers,
Minnie Riperton,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Goldenarms,
The Martian,
The Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
Piero Umiliani,
the Swans,
B.T. Express,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Liliput,
Essential Logic,
a-ha,
Kaleidoscope,
The New Christs,
Porter Ricks,
the Sonics,
The Dead C,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
Monolake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cymande,
Eli Mardock,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soul Sonic Force,
10cc,
Erasure,
Derrick Morgan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Arab on Radar,
Michelle Simonal,
The Smiths,
Matthew Halsall,
Stetsasonic,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.