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 Azerbaijan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 The Evens to the techno 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harpers Bizarre,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Motorama,
Quando Quango,
Max Romeo,
Ohio Players,
Guru Guru,
Brass Construction,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gap Band,
Aloha Tigers,
B.T. Express,
48th St. Collective,
Hasil Adkins,
The Stooges,
The Toasters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Desert Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Quantec,
Rod Modell,
Agent Orange,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantaleimon,
Nico,
Saccharine Trust,
Young Marble Giants,
Procol Harum,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sound Behaviour,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul II Soul,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gong,
The Birthday Party,
Porter Ricks,
The Dirtbombs,
Avey Tare,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Sherman,
Aural Exciters,
Mantronix,
Letta Mbulu,
Joe Finger,
World's Most,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dave Gahan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pagans,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pussy Galore,
Black Pus,
the Association,
Girls At Our Best!,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
Television,
Sex Pistols,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.