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 Guinea 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kurtis Blow to the dance 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Television Personalities,
Brass Construction,
FM Einheit,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Last Poets,
Minny Pops,
Thompson Twins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fad Gadget,
Max Romeo,
Sällskapet,
L. Decosne,
Ornette Coleman,
Interpol,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Reed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kayak,
Joey Negro,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bad Manners,
Brothers Johnson,
Robert Görl,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Cramps,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Selecter,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dual Sessions,
Lucky Dragons,
Colin Newman,
Lou Christie,
Clear Light,
Ten City,
The Gap Band,
Au Pairs,
Fugazi,
Jeff Mills,
The Barracudas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stetsasonic,
Moby Grape,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Angry Samoans,
Althea and Donna,
Roxette,
Pylon,
Warsaw,
Lalo Schifrin,
Animal Collective,
John Cale,
Cybotron,
Can,
Marmalade,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.