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 the UAE and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Young Marble Giants to the electroclash 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
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,
Jawbox,
Quadrant,
World's Most,
The Music Machine,
the Slits,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Janne Schatter,
Robert Görl,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Busters,
Soul II Soul,
Jerry's Kids,
The Gladiators,
Hoover,
The Litter,
The Slackers,
The United States of America,
Schoolly D,
Soulsonic Force,
Warsaw,
Livin' Joy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amon Düül,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radiohead,
Scott Walker,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yazoo,
Massinfluence,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Qualms,
Marine Girls,
The Martian,
The Electric Prunes,
Q and Not U,
The Standells,
U.S. Maple,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fad Gadget,
The Victims,
Audionom,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crooked Eye,
Rapeman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tears for Fears,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sparks,
Organ,
Erasure,
Black Pus,
Matthew Bourne,
Brand Nubian,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Mr. Review,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ossler,
Public Image Ltd.,
Howard Jones,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.