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 San Marino and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yaz to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom 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?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Axelrod,
10cc,
Soft Machine,
China Crisis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Junior Murvin,
Ralphi Rosario,
Neil Young,
The Offenders,
Jacob Miller,
Little Man,
Avey Tare,
Traffic Nightmare,
Accadde A,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gerry Rafferty,
Groovy Waters,
Trumans Water,
Eric Copeland,
Maleditus Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Wally Richardson,
Flipper,
Pantytec,
Quando Quango,
Brick,
Wire,
Silicon Teens,
Sonic Youth,
Tears for Fears,
Main Source,
Ultimate Spinach,
Man Parrish,
JFA,
Sex Pistols,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jeff Mills,
The Dirtbombs,
The Music Machine,
Peter & Gordon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Germs,
Deadbeat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Letta Mbulu,
Davy DMX,
Anthony Braxton,
Robert Hood,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Reuben Wilson,
James White and The Blacks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Moleskins,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.