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 East Timor and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soft Machine to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
48th St. Collective,
Lower 48,
Q and Not U,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moby Grape,
Spandau Ballet,
Grauzone,
Public Enemy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Music Machine,
DJ Style,
LL Cool J,
Chris Corsano,
Niagra,
Desert Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Wake,
Scott Walker,
John Lydon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kaleidoscope,
Zapp,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mars,
the Human League,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Move,
Yusef Lateef,
Reuben Wilson,
The Red Krayola,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mo-Dettes,
Altered Images,
Neil Young,
Robert Wyatt,
Funky Four + One,
Symarip,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
One Last Wish,
Dave Gahan,
Interpol,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ronnie Foster,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Young Rascals,
Darondo,
Jacob Miller,
Soft Cell,
Oblivians,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy Collins,
Clear Light,
Jandek,
Kayak,
The Victims,
Jeru the Damaja,
Khruangbin,
Derrick Morgan,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.