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 Andorra and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rotary Connection to the rap 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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warsaw,
The Monochrome Set,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Searchers,
The Black Dice,
Skarface,
Joy Division,
Joe Finger,
Mad Mike,
Cecil Taylor,
The Star Department,
The Birthday Party,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moss Icon,
The New Christs,
Todd Terry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Hood,
Wings,
Charles Mingus,
Morten Harket,
Nik Kershaw,
Brick,
Liliput,
Blake Baxter,
the Normal,
Josef K,
Y Pants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ten City,
Kayak,
Lou Reed,
Derrick Morgan,
Albert Ayler,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Interpol,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
U.S. Maple,
Desert Stars,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Agitation Free,
Eve St. Jones,
Gang Starr,
Nico,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Von Mondo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Infiniti,
John Holt,
DJ Sneak,
Todd Rundgren,
Half Japanese,
Angry Samoans,
Quando Quango,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool Moe Dee,
Neu!,
Mars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Germs,
Sight & Sound,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.