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 Bulgaria and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba 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 The Saints to the dance 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
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,
the Soft Cell,
Lyres,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radiopuhelimet,
Darondo,
The Invisible,
Model 500,
Cheater Slicks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
New Age Steppers,
Can,
Mars,
Rakim,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chrome,
Bobby Sherman,
F. McDonald,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Shuggie Otis,
Television,
The Offenders,
The Fugs,
Skriet,
The Raincoats,
Echospace,
Joey Negro,
David Axelrod,
The Wake,
This Heat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Maurizio,
Neu!,
Cybotron,
JFA,
The Beau Brummels,
The Monks,
Wings,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultimate Spinach,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Q and Not U,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler,
D'Angelo,
Das Ding,
Harmonia,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Young Marble Giants,
The Residents,
The Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mojo Men,
Unrelated Segments,
Yaz,
The Mummies,
Neil Young,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.