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 Pakistan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin 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 Darondo to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
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,
Flipper,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cure,
The Red Krayola,
The Seeds,
UT,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camouflage,
Bob Dylan,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marc Almond,
Tears for Fears,
Marvin Gaye,
Cymande,
Kayak,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Sherman,
Das Ding,
Neil Young,
PIL,
Isaac Hayes,
Yaz,
Ohio Players,
Organ,
Zero Boys,
Quantec,
Urselle,
The Move,
Banda Bassotti,
Angry Samoans,
The Residents,
Swell Maps,
Warren Ellis,
The Busters,
a-ha,
Chrome,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Derrick May,
The Black Dice,
Panda Bear,
Mantronix,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wings,
Dennis Brown,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Angels of Light,
The United States of America,
The Detroit Cobras,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Minnie Riperton,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Smog,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
World's Most,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.