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 Monaco and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Seeds to the techno 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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
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,
Ludus,
R.M.O.,
Ornette Coleman,
Section 25,
Godley & Creme,
Isaac Hayes,
Erykah Badu,
Blake Baxter,
the Germs,
Con Funk Shun,
Absolute Body Control,
Skriet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Robert Hood,
Basic Channel,
The Searchers,
Morten Harket,
Skarface,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Martian,
The Fall,
The Golliwogs,
The Mummies,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Stockholm Monsters,
Unwound,
Nick Fraelich,
Carl Craig,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pulsallama,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pantaleimon,
Nik Kershaw,
kango's stein massive,
Fad Gadget,
Bush Tetras,
Scan 7,
Ash Ra Tempel,
PIL,
Rufus Thomas,
Brand Nubian,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gladiators,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scratch Acid,
Quando Quango,
Ultravox,
Monolake,
Henry Cow,
Colin Newman,
Charles Mingus,
X-102,
The Pop Group,
The Monochrome Set,
Youth Brigade,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.