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 Nauru and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Visage to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
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,
Shuggie Otis,
EPMD,
Sällskapet,
Joyce Sims,
Suburban Knight,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Royal Trux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barrington Levy,
Marine Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
June Days,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Idris Muhammad,
A Certain Ratio,
The Five Americans,
World's Most,
Half Japanese,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Count Five,
Funkadelic,
Curtis Mayfield,
Todd Terry,
Deakin,
Marmalade,
Marc Almond,
Sonny Sharrock,
Deepchord,
Gang Gang Dance,
Clear Light,
Hashim,
Outsiders,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Pus,
LL Cool J,
Nas,
Radio Birdman,
Archie Shepp,
UT,
Reuben Wilson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Junior Murvin,
CMW,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
Schoolly D,
Fugazi,
Neil Young,
Monolake,
Absolute Body Control,
The Misunderstood,
Con Funk Shun,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.