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 Georgia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Soft Machine to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Funky Four + One,
Bobby Sherman,
Smog,
Donald Byrd,
Chris & Cosey,
R.M.O.,
the Fania All-Stars,
Robert Hood,
Albert Ayler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oneida,
Ponytail,
MDC,
Lindisfarne,
Soft Machine,
Marine Girls,
Qualms,
John Lydon,
Section 25,
The Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blancmange,
Cecil Taylor,
Radiohead,
Crooked Eye,
David Bowie,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobby Womack,
Yellowson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra,
a-ha,
T. Rex,
Radio Birdman,
H. Thieme,
Schoolly D,
Au Pairs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Association,
FM Einheit,
These Immortal Souls,
Liliput,
Quando Quango,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Modern Lovers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Graham Central Station,
Supertramp,
The Dave Clark Five,
Freddie Wadling,
The Busters,
Tubeway Army,
Das Ding,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.