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 Nepal and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doors,
Moss Icon,
Marmalade,
The Cure,
Steve Hackett,
Second Layer,
Sällskapet,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Selecter,
Lucky Dragons,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Icehouse,
Mad Mike,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Alphaville,
Von Mondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dead Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Music Machine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dawn Penn,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cymande,
Buzzcocks,
Con Funk Shun,
Jeff Lynne,
Kaleidoscope,
Kenny Larkin,
the Normal,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bill Wells,
Grey Daturas,
Darondo,
The Real Kids,
One Last Wish,
Eurythmics,
Fugazi,
The Standells,
Bobby Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-101,
Radiohead,
The Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eve St. Jones,
the Association,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rosa Yemen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bang On A Can,
Angry Samoans,
T.S.O.L.,
Babytalk,
Q and Not U,
Swell Maps,
Aloha Tigers,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.