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 Malta and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Scratch Acid to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
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,
Schoolly D,
Babytalk,
Yaz,
The Grass Roots,
Goldenarms,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crooked Eye,
Severed Heads,
Steve Hackett,
Joey Negro,
Con Funk Shun,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Qualms,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sandy B,
Minny Pops,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nik Kershaw,
The Blues Magoos,
Sam Rivers,
Suicide,
Lucky Dragons,
Camberwell Now,
Lightning Bolt,
Pierre Henry,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ludus,
Faraquet,
The Names,
Gang Green,
Derrick Morgan,
Scrapy,
Underground Resistance,
Fad Gadget,
Fugazi,
Cymande,
Pantaleimon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Whodini,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Christie,
Pussy Galore,
Traffic Nightmare,
OOIOO,
Depeche Mode,
The Star Department,
Public Image Ltd.,
David Axelrod,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerri Chandler,
Warren Ellis,
New Age Steppers,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
Alison Limerick,
Procol Harum,
Basic Channel,
The Seeds,
Los Fastidios,
Lyres,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.