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 Taiwan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gong to the disco 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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
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,
The Buckinghams,
The Monochrome Set,
Boogie Down Productions,
Newcleus,
PIL,
MDC,
New Order,
Buzzcocks,
World's Most,
Eden Ahbez,
Flash Fearless,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minor Threat,
Metal Thangz,
Radio Birdman,
Parry Music,
Roxy Music,
Marmalade,
Anakelly,
The Pretty Things,
Los Fastidios,
Al Stewart,
the Human League,
Royal Trux,
Man Parrish,
Patti Smith,
John Cale,
Robert Görl,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Scion,
Hasil Adkins,
Stetsasonic,
The Angels of Light,
AZ,
The Invisible,
Faust,
Cecil Taylor,
This Heat,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quadrant,
Alice Coltrane,
Scientists,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
LL Cool J,
The Slits,
The Vogues,
Neu!,
Reagan Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
FM Einheit,
Gang Green,
Siglo XX,
the Association,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.