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 United Kingdom and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Minutemen to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Marshall Jefferson,
Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Barbara Tucker,
MC5,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Oneida,
Althea and Donna,
Lyres,
Tomorrow,
Soft Machine,
The Grass Roots,
Half Japanese,
Smog,
World's Most,
Bang On A Can,
The Index,
The Associates,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eli Mardock,
Outsiders,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Metal Thangz,
Reuben Wilson,
The Angels of Light,
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
These Immortal Souls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Subhumans,
Frankie Knuckles,
A Certain Ratio,
Crime,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Neu!,
Scrapy,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
Deadbeat,
The Techniques,
Index,
Sun City Girls,
David Axelrod,
The Happenings,
Eric Copeland,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ice-T,
Reagan Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mr. Review,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Misunderstood,
Stiv Bators,
Easy Going,
The Sound,
Interpol,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.