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 Eritrea and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Unwound to the grime 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin 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 marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Joensuu 1685,
This Heat,
The Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Byrd,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Newcleus,
Sonic Youth,
Agitation Free,
Letta Mbulu,
Desert Stars,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare,
Nirvana,
Symarip,
Peter & Gordon,
Kenny Larkin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Byron Stingily,
Pulsallama,
The Red Krayola,
Wasted Youth,
Kurtis Blow,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter and Kerry,
Heaven 17,
Morten Harket,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ossler,
Joey Negro,
Delta 5,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Soft Cell,
Vladislav Delay,
Delon & Dalcan,
Banda Bassotti,
The Remains,
Schoolly D,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Monks,
the Human League,
Maleditus Sound,
Al Stewart,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Walker Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Trojans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wolf Eyes,
Cecil Taylor,
Minutemen,
Scrapy,
Pere Ubu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bang On A Can,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.