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 Dominica and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the jazz 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
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,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dark Day,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Yazoo,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
The Saints,
Matthew Halsall,
Animal Collective,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
cv313,
Urselle,
Eurythmics,
Agent Orange,
The Zeros,
Byron Stingily,
Hot Snakes,
World's Most,
Bronski Beat,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Barracudas,
Darondo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Icehouse,
Wasted Youth,
kango's stein massive,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arthur Verocai,
Robert Hood,
Gang Gang Dance,
CMW,
Zero Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jerry's Kids,
Blake Baxter,
The Doors,
Tomorrow,
Patti Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crash Course in Science,
Tim Buckley,
Bang On A Can,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lungfish,
Sixth Finger,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mission of Burma,
The New Christs,
Delta 5,
F. McDonald,
DJ Sneak,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fatback Band,
The Invisible,
The Fall,
Swans,
Basic Channel,
Colin Newman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dual Sessions,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.