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 South Sudan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Toni Rubio to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
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,
The Electric Prunes,
Monolake,
Parry Music,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Popol Vuh,
Japan,
Funkadelic,
Leonard Cohen,
EPMD,
Pussy Galore,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Five Americans,
Flipper,
Gichy Dan,
Clear Light,
Minnie Riperton,
Scion,
Stiv Bators,
Fluxion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skarface,
The Associates,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Görl,
Television Personalities,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Todd Rundgren,
Theoretical Girls,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ohio Players,
Mars,
Derrick May,
Camberwell Now,
Television,
Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Archie Shepp,
The Leaves,
Laurel Aitken,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rakim,
Gong,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Divine Comedy,
John Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Neu!,
Cybotron,
Yaz,
Delta 5,
Second Layer,
Arab on Radar,
Josef K,
Flash Fearless,
Fifty Foot Hose,
10cc,
Albert Ayler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Big Daddy Kane,
Black Bananas,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.