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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Kerrie Biddell to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
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,
Intrusion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mad Mike,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Matthew Bourne,
Animal Collective,
Zero Boys,
The Saints,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tubeway Army,
Glenn Branca,
the Soft Cell,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers,
the Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Man Parrish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The J.B.'s,
Adolescents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gun Club,
Q and Not U,
Cybotron,
Black Bananas,
Scrapy,
Matthew Halsall,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jandek,
Gang Green,
Freddie Wadling,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gichy Dan,
Sonic Youth,
Vainqueur,
Lindisfarne,
June of 44,
Rites of Spring,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rakim,
Magma,
Wire,
Mark Hollis,
The Toasters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cal Tjader,
Pet Shop Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
The Names,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cymande,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.