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 Guinea and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Aloha Tigers to the funk 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 Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Y Pants,
Warren Ellis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mad Mike,
Tres Demented,
Dennis Brown,
Con Funk Shun,
Anthony Braxton,
the Normal,
Minnie Riperton,
Scott Walker,
Kas Product,
Lucky Dragons,
KRS-One,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
In Retrospect,
The Saints,
The Beau Brummels,
Agitation Free,
Popol Vuh,
Porter Ricks,
Hot Snakes,
Joe Smooth,
Chris Corsano,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rekid,
U.S. Maple,
Scion,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Mission of Burma,
The Happenings,
The Motions,
Ornette Coleman,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
New Age Steppers,
Amon Düül,
Echospace,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rites of Spring,
Main Source,
Al Stewart,
Spoonie Gee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Buckinghams,
Alphaville,
Quantec,
Bill Wells,
Steve Hackett,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
Marc Almond,
Sugar Minott,
Roxy Music,
Fela Kuti,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ohio Players,
Average White Band,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.