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 Vietnam and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Deakin to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
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,
John Coltrane,
Ossler,
Dead Boys,
Ronnie Foster,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pulsallama,
Tommy Roe,
Lungfish,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultimate Spinach,
AZ,
Minny Pops,
Dave Gahan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Holt,
Index,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kas Product,
Shoche,
Public Image Ltd.,
Althea and Donna,
Derrick May,
Scion,
Agent Orange,
The Searchers,
the Swans,
Technova,
L. Decosne,
Juan Atkins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Cale,
Hot Snakes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blancmange,
The Cowsills,
CMW,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Happenings,
The Cure,
Alice Coltrane,
48th St. Collective,
Pole,
The Associates,
Cluster,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grey Daturas,
The Doobie Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Patti Smith,
The Modern Lovers,
Stiv Bators,
Steve Hackett,
Monolake,
The Remains,
The Durutti Column,
Darondo,
The Zeros,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.