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 Lesotho and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Scott Walker to the jazz 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin 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 theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Connie Case,
cv313,
Monks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pylon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sight & Sound,
Harmonia,
the Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
John Lydon,
Roxy Music,
Newcleus,
Gichy Dan,
Fad Gadget,
Thee Headcoats,
Essential Logic,
Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hardrive,
Terrestrial Tones,
Second Layer,
Organ,
Godley & Creme,
Babytalk,
Public Enemy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ohio Players,
The American Breed,
Shoche,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Metal Thangz,
Country Teasers,
Gang of Four,
the Association,
L. Decosne,
In Retrospect,
Masters at Work,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hot Snakes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Funky Four + One,
Slick Rick,
Freddie Wadling,
These Immortal Souls,
Bush Tetras,
Skaos,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
The Sonics,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rites of Spring,
Byron Stingily,
Quantec,
Wally Richardson,
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scrapy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.