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 Senegal and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fear to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
The Searchers,
The Beau Brummels,
China Crisis,
Skarface,
Basic Channel,
Dual Sessions,
Ludus,
Roxette,
cv313,
Lindisfarne,
The Gories,
Lucky Dragons,
The Remains,
Moss Icon,
Brick,
Brand Nubian,
Rotary Connection,
The Misunderstood,
the Bar-Kays,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Toasters,
Marmalade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Soft Cell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Doors,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aural Exciters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Absolute Body Control,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Human League,
Swans,
New Order,
Blossom Toes,
Funky Four + One,
The Divine Comedy,
Model 500,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Schoolly D,
Drexciya,
Yellowson,
Peter and Kerry,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dave Gahan,
Severed Heads,
Bad Manners,
Albert Ayler,
The Neon Judgement,
Hot Snakes,
The Grass Roots,
Faraquet,
Tim Buckley,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Knickerbockers,
Tom Boy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Isaac Hayes,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.