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 Singapore and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
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,
Scott Walker,
The Smoke,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pylon,
Susan Cadogan,
Hasil Adkins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Accadde A,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Pop Group,
Absolute Body Control,
Fluxion,
Organ,
Archie Shepp,
Model 500,
Japan,
Marc Almond,
cv313,
Jacques Brel,
48th St. Collective,
LL Cool J,
Panda Bear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lalann,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cybotron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crooked Eye,
The Tremeloes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chris & Cosey,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Althea and Donna,
Lucky Dragons,
Magazine,
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
Liliput,
Half Japanese,
R.M.O.,
Ponytail,
Arab on Radar,
New Age Steppers,
Glenn Branca,
Agitation Free,
Adolescents,
Dual Sessions,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Interpol,
Soul II Soul,
Pantaleimon,
Young Marble Giants,
Aswad,
Eric Copeland,
Youth Brigade,
Tears for Fears,
June of 44,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.