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 Pakistan and from Houston.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bob Dylan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 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 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
The Detroit Cobras,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arthur Verocai,
Gang Gang Dance,
Stereo Dub,
The Knickerbockers,
Joy Division,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gregory Isaacs,
Malaria!,
Scan 7,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rotary Connection,
Lyres,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deakin,
Davy DMX,
Quadrant,
Lalann,
Absolute Body Control,
Reuben Wilson,
The New Christs,
Wings,
Warren Ellis,
Eric Dolphy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Subhumans,
Stiv Bators,
Minutemen,
The Tremeloes,
The Kinks,
Johnny Clarke,
Grauzone,
Darondo,
Pole,
The Buckinghams,
Glenn Branca,
Depeche Mode,
Dave Gahan,
Aswad,
Isaac Hayes,
Siglo XX,
Jacques Brel,
Robert Wyatt,
Joensuu 1685,
Neil Young,
Mission of Burma,
Vladislav Delay,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Circle Jerks,
Laurel Aitken,
The Dirtbombs,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Five Americans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Selecter,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.