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 Azerbaijan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Colin Newman to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Erykah Badu,
Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wire,
Matthew Bourne,
Radio Birdman,
Danielle Patucci,
Yazoo,
The Smiths,
Bush Tetras,
Deakin,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Byrd,
KRS-One,
Nik Kershaw,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Buzzcocks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Young Marble Giants,
Clear Light,
AZ,
The Residents,
Juan Atkins,
Unrelated Segments,
Arcadia,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Star Department,
UT,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Howard Jones,
The Modern Lovers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Visage,
Quantec,
Chris & Cosey,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Womack,
Mad Mike,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
New Age Steppers,
cv313,
Marmalade,
Judy Mowatt,
Thompson Twins,
Essential Logic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
D'Angelo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Section 25,
Marine Girls,
the Germs,
Lightning Bolt,
Curtis Mayfield,
Television Personalities,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.