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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nik Kershaw to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
Robert Wyatt,
Gang Green,
Maurizio,
D'Angelo,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Litter,
Charles Mingus,
Marshall Jefferson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Matthew Halsall,
Joe Finger,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thompson Twins,
the Swans,
World's Most,
Dark Day,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Man Parrish,
Vainqueur,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swell Maps,
Chris & Cosey,
Barclay James Harvest,
Popol Vuh,
Quando Quango,
Peter & Gordon,
The Moody Blues,
Cybotron,
Dennis Brown,
Carl Craig,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Agent Orange,
Ronnie Foster,
Skarface,
Panda Bear,
John Coltrane,
Organ,
Sun Ra,
Boz Scaggs,
Sister Nancy,
The Beau Brummels,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Con Funk Shun,
Jesper Dahlback,
Matthew Bourne,
Minnie Riperton,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deadbeat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Susan Cadogan,
Tom Boy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Janne Schatter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
James Chance & The Contortions,
In Retrospect,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Massinfluence,
Sonic Youth,
Average White Band,
John Foxx,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.