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 Morocco and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Todd Terry to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Hashim,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
B.T. Express,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Magazine,
Eric Dolphy,
Monks,
Ronnie Foster,
The Smiths,
Isaac Hayes,
Amon Düül II,
Pulsallama,
The Grass Roots,
The Blackbyrds,
F. McDonald,
L. Decosne,
Zapp,
Brand Nubian,
Bronski Beat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Max Romeo,
The Happenings,
the Association,
Banda Bassotti,
Massinfluence,
Black Moon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Warsaw,
Animal Collective,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
David McCallum,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soulsonic Force,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alphaville,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Talk Talk,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Slave,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Blake Baxter,
Bang On A Can,
The Standells,
The Fugs,
Soul II Soul,
Hasil Adkins,
Monolake,
Pussy Galore,
Make Up,
The Kinks,
Desert Stars,
Charles Mingus,
Carl Craig,
The Cramps,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.