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 Suriname and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the dance 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and an organ 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 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?
Pierre Henry,
Youth Brigade,
10cc,
Rhythm & Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quando Quango,
X-101,
Jerry Gold Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fad Gadget,
Cal Tjader,
Patti Smith,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Starr,
Hasil Adkins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fugazi,
Rapeman,
UT,
Television,
Minny Pops,
Zero Boys,
Tomorrow,
Lee Hazlewood,
World's Most,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kenny Larkin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Porter Ricks,
Darondo,
Barry Ungar,
Eli Mardock,
Peter & Gordon,
Eddi Front,
Neu!,
Ultravox,
The Fire Engines,
Icehouse,
Chris & Cosey,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crash Course in Science,
Los Fastidios,
The Invisible,
Hot Snakes,
Lalann,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gun Club,
Minutemen,
Maurizio,
Sandy B,
Urselle,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Fuzztones,
Laurel Aitken,
Soul II Soul,
Henry Cow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oneida,
Franke,
The Gladiators,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.