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 Cape Verde and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Association to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
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,
Vainqueur,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Skarface,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Evens,
Mantronix,
Soul II Soul,
Althea and Donna,
Oneida,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pole,
Delta 5,
The Fugs,
Nirvana,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Goldenarms,
Maleditus Sound,
Depeche Mode,
One Last Wish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shuggie Otis,
Bush Tetras,
The Gories,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Skatalites,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
Mars,
Gil Scott Heron,
Janne Schatter,
Magazine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Erasure,
John Holt,
Anakelly,
Tears for Fears,
Audionom,
Shoche,
John Coltrane,
Can,
Joe Smooth,
World's Most,
Sällskapet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camouflage,
The Names,
The Angels of Light,
UT,
Wings,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobby Sherman,
Jeff Mills,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rotary Connection,
Alphaville,
the Human League,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Lynne,
Deadbeat,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.