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 Palau and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 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 Jacob Miller to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Talk Talk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Roxy Music,
the Bar-Kays,
David Axelrod,
The Fugs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Bourne,
Franke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dual Sessions,
Intrusion,
The Monochrome Set,
Warren Ellis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
June Days,
Bill Wells,
The Fire Engines,
Scientists,
The Leaves,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
X-102,
Laurel Aitken,
Lyres,
Wasted Youth,
Sound Behaviour,
Interpol,
The Sonics,
PIL,
Absolute Body Control,
The Smoke,
Idris Muhammad,
Alice Coltrane,
Silicon Teens,
EPMD,
The Misunderstood,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Model 500,
Grey Daturas,
Camberwell Now,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Blues Magoos,
X-Ray Spex,
Mad Mike,
Bill Near,
Roy Ayers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Darondo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Red Krayola,
Sugar Minott,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.