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 Argentina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Slackers to the electroclash 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
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,
Bad Manners,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lightning Bolt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Electric Prunes,
Negative Approach,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wings,
Rakim,
Aural Exciters,
Soul II Soul,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Josef K,
The Moleskins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
This Heat,
A Certain Ratio,
Gabor Szabo,
Simply Red,
Fear,
The Doors,
Severed Heads,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Prince Buster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Detroit Cobras,
Magma,
The Cure,
Mark Hollis,
The Motions,
Bobby Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Grey Daturas,
Eden Ahbez,
Rotary Connection,
World's Most,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Foxx,
Swell Maps,
Whodini,
Public Enemy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Dirtbombs,
MC5,
Vladislav Delay,
Television Personalities,
Warren Ellis,
Nils Olav,
Amazonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Accadde A,
The Dave Clark Five,
In Retrospect,
Dark Day,
The Selecter,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.