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 Australia and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Mummies to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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,
L. Decosne,
Quantec,
Ronan,
The Grass Roots,
The Knickerbockers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
X-102,
In Retrospect,
Todd Terry,
Suicide,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sarah Menescal,
Organ,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Fania All-Stars,
Clear Light,
Essential Logic,
Livin' Joy,
Ludus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zapp,
Sister Nancy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gories,
Faraquet,
Arab on Radar,
OOIOO,
Rufus Thomas,
Intrusion,
Symarip,
Janne Schatter,
Anakelly,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tim Buckley,
U.S. Maple,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Germs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television,
Joy Division,
Michelle Simonal,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Dead C,
Outsiders,
Charles Mingus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David McCallum,
Masters at Work,
Parry Music,
Morten Harket,
Suburban Knight,
Lindisfarne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Isaac Hayes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minor Threat,
Grey Daturas,
Boredoms,
Barclay James Harvest,
Junior Murvin,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.