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 Lebanon and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 Scan 7 to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
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,
Young Marble Giants,
Camberwell Now,
Section 25,
Robert Hood,
Bauhaus,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultravox,
Tim Buckley,
Siglo XX,
The Martian,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
The Human League,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thee Headcoats,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fire Engines,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Style,
The Birthday Party,
Bluetip,
Unrelated Segments,
Fluxion,
The Saints,
Funky Four + One,
Cheater Slicks,
Ten City,
OOIOO,
Monks,
David Axelrod,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Swans,
Masters at Work,
the Human League,
Hoover,
Intrusion,
The Barracudas,
Ludus,
Robert Wyatt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lakeside,
Visage,
Mandrill,
Rosa Yemen,
MDC,
Lindisfarne,
Kaleidoscope,
Swell Maps,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Raincoats,
Eurythmics,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Mummies,
The Invisible,
Bush Tetras,
Rotary Connection,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.