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 Samoa and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sandy B to the rock 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
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,
OOIOO,
The Gories,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Young Rascals,
The Velvet Underground,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantytec,
Siglo XX,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Yellowson,
Godley & Creme,
A Certain Ratio,
Delta 5,
Ken Boothe,
Jeff Mills,
Banda Bassotti,
Brand Nubian,
Quadrant,
Danielle Patucci,
Tres Demented,
Deakin,
KRS-One,
Charles Mingus,
Pere Ubu,
The Pretty Things,
The Offenders,
The Motions,
Jacques Brel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eric Copeland,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lalo Schifrin,
Outsiders,
Cameo,
Sun Ra,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
Negative Approach,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fire Engines,
Hashim,
Public Enemy,
Sun City Girls,
The Searchers,
Average White Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eurythmics,
Liliput,
Guru Guru,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.