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 Thailand and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar 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 Q65 to the dance 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
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,
Lou Christie,
Fugazi,
Nils Olav,
The Associates,
The Toasters,
Ituana,
Los Fastidios,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deakin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Erasure,
World's Most,
Index,
Sun Ra,
Derrick May,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pylon,
Ornette Coleman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Whodini,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dave Gahan,
OOIOO,
Skaos,
Warsaw,
The Fire Engines,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kaleidoscope,
JFA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eric Copeland,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mantronix,
Angry Samoans,
Don Cherry,
Marshall Jefferson,
Con Funk Shun,
Cluster,
Quantec,
Graham Central Station,
The Move,
Terrestrial Tones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Franke,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Absolute Body Control,
Joey Negro,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Starr,
Glenn Branca,
Flipper,
Colin Newman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.