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 Mauritius and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Von Mondo to the grime 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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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,
Siglo XX,
Moby Grape,
K-Klass,
Whodini,
Nik Kershaw,
The Dirtbombs,
Tears for Fears,
Danielle Patucci,
Liliput,
Fugazi,
Tubeway Army,
Pantytec,
Slick Rick,
The Techniques,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
FM Einheit,
T.S.O.L.,
L. Decosne,
DJ Style,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Adolescents,
Pantaleimon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shuggie Otis,
Section 25,
Swell Maps,
James White and The Blacks,
F. McDonald,
Godley & Creme,
Chris Corsano,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultravox,
Eden Ahbez,
The Move,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Grauzone,
Nils Olav,
The Sonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Slits,
Panda Bear,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fall,
X-Ray Spex,
Lalann,
Sam Rivers,
Albert Ayler,
The Raincoats,
Absolute Body Control,
Gichy Dan,
Idris Muhammad,
Joyce Sims,
Flipper,
Throbbing Gristle,
Spandau Ballet,
Marshall Jefferson,
New Order,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.