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 Japan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sly & The Family Stone 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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
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,
The Smoke,
Eddi Front,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Smooth,
The Martian,
Mission of Burma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radio Birdman,
Rites of Spring,
Chrome,
Lalann,
LL Cool J,
Soulsonic Force,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bill Near,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gladiators,
PIL,
Au Pairs,
Bauhaus,
Neu!,
Black Bananas,
Leonard Cohen,
Echospace,
Yazoo,
China Crisis,
the Bar-Kays,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Josef K,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fad Gadget,
The Busters,
The Tremeloes,
Y Pants,
Urselle,
The Doors,
Crispian St. Peters,
Monks,
Gabor Szabo,
Television,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gang Green,
Mad Mike,
Dual Sessions,
Bob Dylan,
Von Mondo,
Goldenarms,
Sound Behaviour,
The Count Five,
The Raincoats,
Eve St. Jones,
Junior Murvin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aaron Thompson,
New Order,
The Electric Prunes,
Jacob Miller,
The Pretty Things,
Donald Byrd,
OOIOO,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.