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 Belgium and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Kenny Larkin to the dance 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rapeman,
The Gories,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
Joy Division,
Alton Ellis,
Wolf Eyes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DJ Sneak,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pantaleimon,
Matthew Bourne,
Outsiders,
Don Cherry,
Agent Orange,
Oneida,
Robert Hood,
Sex Pistols,
Fatback Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Warsaw,
Wasted Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
X-102,
Bad Manners,
Anthony Braxton,
Brass Construction,
Drexciya,
Darondo,
48th St. Collective,
The Gladiators,
Dawn Penn,
Ice-T,
Das Ding,
the Human League,
Lou Reed,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joe Smooth,
FM Einheit,
Rakim,
Cheater Slicks,
Goldenarms,
Depeche Mode,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agitation Free,
Trumans Water,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Amon Düül II,
David Bowie,
The Smoke,
Electric Prunes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Durutti Column,
Roy Ayers,
Index,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lalann,
The Martian,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.