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 Kiribati and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Desert Stars to the techno 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
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,
The Neon Judgement,
Brass Construction,
The Velvet Underground,
Intrusion,
Rotary Connection,
Gang of Four,
Soul II Soul,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cure,
Eric Copeland,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fugs,
Rod Modell,
Rapeman,
Slave,
Supertramp,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kaleidoscope,
Drexciya,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Warsaw,
Excepter,
The Trojans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cal Tjader,
Janne Schatter,
John Coltrane,
Ponytail,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Trumans Water,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Saints,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jandek,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
OOIOO,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
B.T. Express,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wolf Eyes,
Albert Ayler,
The Standells,
Lower 48,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
F. McDonald,
Pulsallama,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Half Japanese,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Theoretical Girls,
Unrelated Segments,
Thee Headcoats,
Make Up,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.