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 Egypt and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 MC5 to the rock 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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,
The Names,
Vainqueur,
The Detroit Cobras,
Black Sheep,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
The Evens,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
The Pretty Things,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eli Mardock,
Flash Fearless,
DJ Style,
The Cowsills,
Monolake,
Cluster,
Drexciya,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fuzztones,
The Fall,
Moebius,
La Düsseldorf,
Donald Byrd,
the Soft Cell,
The Five Americans,
L. Decosne,
Harmonia,
Crooked Eye,
Eve St. Jones,
The Slackers,
The Real Kids,
Heaven 17,
Gong,
Jacques Brel,
Suburban Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rod Modell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Technova,
the Human League,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Underground Resistance,
The Star Department,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fear,
Von Mondo,
Nils Olav,
DJ Sneak,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Reuben Wilson,
Niagra,
Godley & Creme,
Boz Scaggs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.