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 Slovakia and from London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 The Wake to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro 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 guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Neil Young,
Rekid,
Moebius,
Nick Fraelich,
The Golliwogs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Panda Bear,
Ludus,
The Detroit Cobras,
Agent Orange,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Massinfluence,
Goldenarms,
Jeff Mills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Starr,
Wolf Eyes,
The Blackbyrds,
Chris & Cosey,
Ornette Coleman,
The Names,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Whodini,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fuzztones,
Stereo Dub,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry's Kids,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Outsiders,
Absolute Body Control,
The Mighty Diamonds,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
The Black Dice,
The Seeds,
Make Up,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rosa Yemen,
Grauzone,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Warren Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Silicon Teens,
Ossler,
Echospace,
The Leaves,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Count Five,
L. Decosne,
Prince Buster,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.