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 Comoros and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Flipper to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Green,
Tom Boy,
Subhumans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Womack,
Patti Smith,
Marmalade,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Piero Umiliani,
D'Angelo,
Graham Central Station,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bush Tetras,
Parry Music,
Fugazi,
Brothers Johnson,
Camouflage,
The Index,
Bluetip,
Grauzone,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Christie,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Moby Grape,
The Fuzztones,
L. Decosne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tres Demented,
Sister Nancy,
Nils Olav,
Ten City,
Duran Duran,
Funky Four + One,
Bauhaus,
Matthew Bourne,
Ice-T,
Half Japanese,
Flipper,
Suburban Knight,
Little Man,
Mars,
Monks,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Coltrane,
The Grass Roots,
Sight & Sound,
UT,
the Slits,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eden Ahbez,
Joe Finger,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kerri Chandler,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Masters at Work,
cv313,
Cheater Slicks,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.