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 Dominica and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 A Flock of Seagulls 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Newcleus,
The Techniques,
Clear Light,
Robert Görl,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Y Pants,
Underground Resistance,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grandmaster Flash,
Second Layer,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter and Kerry,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ultravox,
Dark Day,
These Immortal Souls,
Zero Boys,
Grey Daturas,
The Grass Roots,
Morten Harket,
Man Parrish,
The Vogues,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Womack,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fortunes,
MDC,
T. Rex,
Radiohead,
Skarface,
Laurel Aitken,
Pet Shop Boys,
Albert Ayler,
Joyce Sims,
Crispian St. Peters,
Public Enemy,
Maleditus Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Groovy Waters,
Sun City Girls,
Essential Logic,
Livin' Joy,
Eric Dolphy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Byron Stingily,
The Electric Prunes,
Massinfluence,
Cameo,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Hashim,
Todd Terry,
Kerri Chandler,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
OOIOO,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.