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 Taiwan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Scrapy to the dance 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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,
Sex Pistols,
Quadrant,
Sun City Girls,
Mo-Dettes,
Nirvana,
The Divine Comedy,
Von Mondo,
Soulsonic Force,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MC5,
Scratch Acid,
Rosa Yemen,
Pylon,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marvin Gaye,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Wyatt,
X-102,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yellowson,
The Monks,
Deadbeat,
Franke,
Derrick May,
Warsaw,
Slave,
Wire,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dave Gahan,
The Last Poets,
Lou Christie,
Tommy Roe,
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
PIL,
Crooked Eye,
Gabor Szabo,
Lucky Dragons,
Dead Boys,
Barry Ungar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Section 25,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Deepchord,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Japan,
Marmalade,
Harpers Bizarre,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fatback Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Blues Magoos,
Derrick Morgan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brand Nubian,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.