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 Qatar and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Dave Clark Five to the rap 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
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,
Hasil Adkins,
Mission of Burma,
Ten City,
Boredoms,
Angry Samoans,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pantaleimon,
Moebius,
The Velvet Underground,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Seeds,
The Monks,
The Dead C,
Graham Central Station,
EPMD,
Patti Smith,
A Certain Ratio,
Hoover,
Barrington Levy,
Unrelated Segments,
Japan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
Sight & Sound,
The Pretty Things,
Kaleidoscope,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Golliwogs,
Moss Icon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tomorrow,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Franke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gastr Del Sol,
Model 500,
Desert Stars,
Charles Mingus,
Nas,
The Kinks,
Buzzcocks,
The Black Dice,
Deakin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Prunes,
Pole,
Nick Fraelich,
New York Dolls,
The Cure,
D'Angelo,
Reuben Wilson,
Dark Day,
Slick Rick,
Radiohead,
The Smoke,
Theoretical Girls,
Sugar Minott,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.