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 India and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the grunge 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
X-Ray Spex,
The Pretty Things,
Erasure,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Skatalites,
Bauhaus,
B.T. Express,
Ronnie Foster,
Letta Mbulu,
The Toasters,
Sonic Youth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Todd Rundgren,
The Stooges,
Camberwell Now,
Rakim,
These Immortal Souls,
Scrapy,
Chris Corsano,
The Monochrome Set,
Grey Daturas,
Alphaville,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Slits,
Joy Division,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Sun Ra,
Johnny Clarke,
Godley & Creme,
Rapeman,
Minny Pops,
Kerri Chandler,
Slick Rick,
The New Christs,
Delta 5,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T. Rex,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sugar Minott,
Country Teasers,
Bobby Womack,
Heaven 17,
Nas,
Tears for Fears,
Ultra Naté,
The Electric Prunes,
Nils Olav,
New Age Steppers,
Drexciya,
Sister Nancy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pole,
The J.B.'s,
AZ,
Accadde A,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.