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 United States and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Symarip to the dance 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
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,
Kevin Saunderson,
The American Breed,
LL Cool J,
Man Parrish,
Saccharine Trust,
Scion,
The Offenders,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Beau Brummels,
Don Cherry,
Kurtis Blow,
The Blues Magoos,
Cameo,
Excepter,
Suburban Knight,
Chris & Cosey,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Todd Terry,
Bronski Beat,
Joyce Sims,
Joensuu 1685,
Au Pairs,
Supertramp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aloha Tigers,
Minutemen,
The J.B.'s,
New York Dolls,
Alice Coltrane,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Barracudas,
Funky Four + One,
Barbara Tucker,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Görl,
Ornette Coleman,
E-Dancer,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kerri Chandler,
Moby Grape,
Audionom,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dennis Brown,
L. Decosne,
Alison Limerick,
Ultimate Spinach,
Crispian St. Peters,
PIL,
Monks,
Scientists,
Fat Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bad Manners,
Derrick Morgan,
Fela Kuti,
Sandy B,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.