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 Solomon Islands and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 James White and The Blacks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare 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 marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Kas Product,
Kerrie Biddell,
New Age Steppers,
Tomorrow,
The Monks,
Tommy Roe,
Los Fastidios,
Heaven 17,
Barclay James Harvest,
Urselle,
the Human League,
Chrome,
Ponytail,
Depeche Mode,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Gang Green,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joe Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Model 500,
The Modern Lovers,
These Immortal Souls,
Simply Red,
Sugar Minott,
Kenny Larkin,
Ken Boothe,
Khruangbin,
Barrington Levy,
Joy Division,
The Shadows of Knight,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun Ra,
New Order,
The Remains,
The Slits,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scion,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Young Rascals,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jandek,
The Standells,
The Martian,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marc Almond,
The Fortunes,
Eurythmics,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pole,
Eric Dolphy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neil Young,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marshall Jefferson,
AZ,
Qualms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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