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 Brunei and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Anakelly to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
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,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
B.T. Express,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Piero Umiliani,
Judy Mowatt,
Matthew Halsall,
The Human League,
Cameo,
Whodini,
Mark Hollis,
Symarip,
U.S. Maple,
Unrelated Segments,
Steve Hackett,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sight & Sound,
Minny Pops,
The Standells,
Camberwell Now,
New Order,
The Kinks,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Starr,
John Holt,
Bobby Womack,
Bob Dylan,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Wyatt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sandy B,
Cheater Slicks,
Donny Hathaway,
Ten City,
Max Romeo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Foxx,
Bill Wells,
The Happenings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minutemen,
Traffic Nightmare,
Slick Rick,
Lightning Bolt,
Lakeside,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Carl Craig,
Fad Gadget,
The Gladiators,
Malaria!,
Brand Nubian,
Todd Terry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Isaac Hayes,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.