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 Georgia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lou Reed to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
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,
The Victims,
Audionom,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
La Düsseldorf,
Jerry's Kids,
Gil Scott Heron,
Television,
Alton Ellis,
The Stooges,
Kenny Larkin,
the Human League,
Trumans Water,
Al Stewart,
MDC,
James White and The Blacks,
Brothers Johnson,
Ludus,
The Last Poets,
China Crisis,
Rites of Spring,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
MC5,
Cheater Slicks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Silicon Teens,
Quantec,
Yellowson,
Pantaleimon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun City Girls,
ABBA,
The Trojans,
Robert Hood,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thee Headcoats,
John Lydon,
Echospace,
Rod Modell,
The Human League,
Todd Terry,
Half Japanese,
Jacob Miller,
Smog,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Tremeloes,
Anthony Braxton,
Qualms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Little Man,
Brick,
Gang of Four,
Lakeside,
Sugar Minott,
The Searchers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Pylon,
Donny Hathaway,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.