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 South Sudan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Michelle Simonal to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe 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 theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Jacques Brel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Glambeats Corp.,
Model 500,
Blossom Toes,
Visage,
The Fugs,
Gang Green,
Yusef Lateef,
Q65,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Finger,
Royal Trux,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Country Teasers,
World's Most,
Nirvana,
kango's stein massive,
Camouflage,
Fatback Band,
Minnie Riperton,
The Skatalites,
Robert Görl,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MC5,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fear,
Godley & Creme,
The Searchers,
Skarface,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Faraquet,
Scientists,
New York Dolls,
Cameo,
The Moleskins,
The New Christs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
Agitation Free,
Moss Icon,
The Durutti Column,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aloha Tigers,
Shuggie Otis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Invisible,
Swans,
Qualms,
Eve St. Jones,
Erasure,
The Red Krayola,
The Sound,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Black Dice,
Ten City,
Roxy Music,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.