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 Jordan and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Goldenarms to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
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,
Average White Band,
The Smiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
Los Fastidios,
Brand Nubian,
Grey Daturas,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rekid,
Basic Channel,
Nas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Moody Blues,
JFA,
The Real Kids,
DJ Sneak,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Moby Grape,
Harpers Bizarre,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Slits,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Christie,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wally Richardson,
The Barracudas,
Avey Tare,
F. McDonald,
Swans,
Ohio Players,
Rotary Connection,
Fela Kuti,
Half Japanese,
One Last Wish,
Hashim,
Fear,
The Martian,
Sight & Sound,
Sun Ra,
Isaac Hayes,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
The Trojans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Stooges,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sonic Youth,
The Toasters,
Flipper,
Stetsasonic,
Model 500,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Byrd,
Brick,
Lower 48,
Mantronix,
FM Einheit,
Radiopuhelimet,
Talk Talk,
The Associates,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.