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 Turkmenistan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Shadows of Knight to the punk 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Colin Newman,
Ponytail,
The Leaves,
John Coltrane,
New Age Steppers,
Boredoms,
The Pretty Things,
China Crisis,
ABC,
The Slits,
The Invisible,
Royal Trux,
Index,
Gang Green,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cramps,
The Doors,
The Fugs,
Magma,
Interpol,
Wire,
Bill Near,
The Gap Band,
The J.B.'s,
The Dirtbombs,
Echospace,
Marc Almond,
Clear Light,
Public Enemy,
Charles Mingus,
The Remains,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marcia Griffiths,
One Last Wish,
Pylon,
The Selecter,
Lou Reed,
The Music Machine,
Motorama,
Rod Modell,
UT,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fela Kuti,
Thee Headcoats,
Stetsasonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Schoolly D,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Velvet Underground,
Joe Smooth,
Sällskapet,
Angry Samoans,
Rufus Thomas,
The Standells,
Eve St. Jones,
Aural Exciters,
Camberwell Now,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.