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 China and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Minor Threat to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Cale,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
This Heat,
Pagans,
The Alarm Clocks,
Blake Baxter,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Babytalk,
The Invisible,
Flash Fearless,
Agent Orange,
The Fugs,
Cecil Taylor,
Joensuu 1685,
Average White Band,
Barrington Levy,
Bush Tetras,
Vainqueur,
Oneida,
The Raincoats,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dead C,
Barclay James Harvest,
Piero Umiliani,
Boz Scaggs,
Scion,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
L. Decosne,
Morten Harket,
Michelle Simonal,
Stiv Bators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Minor Threat,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang Green,
The Cramps,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
John Coltrane,
The Golliwogs,
Kayak,
Eurythmics,
The Slits,
Flipper,
The Saints,
Jeff Mills,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Dirtbombs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.