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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ohio Players to the grunge 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
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,
ABBA,
Supertramp,
L. Decosne,
The Slits,
The Buckinghams,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Infiniti,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Groovy Waters,
ABC,
Soft Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Moon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roger Hodgson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
a-ha,
Curtis Mayfield,
Max Romeo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Misunderstood,
Gong,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fortunes,
Radio Birdman,
Aural Exciters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marine Girls,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang Green,
Kayak,
Stereo Dub,
The Doors,
Althea and Donna,
Royal Trux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronan,
Janne Schatter,
David Bowie,
Sun City Girls,
Robert Hood,
Lee Hazlewood,
Agitation Free,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Slick Rick,
Brand Nubian,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rites of Spring,
Drive Like Jehu,
Judy Mowatt,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wasted Youth,
Barry Ungar,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.