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 Paraguay and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Colin Newman to the punk 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 techno 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Whodini,
Sparks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Slits,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
Avey Tare,
Matthew Bourne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Magma,
The Smoke,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Don Cherry,
The Victims,
The Dead C,
ABBA,
Jacques Brel,
Thee Headcoats,
The Busters,
Harmonia,
Eve St. Jones,
Fluxion,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sun City Girls,
The Birthday Party,
Lucky Dragons,
Main Source,
Colin Newman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Josef K,
Cymande,
Peter & Gordon,
Aloha Tigers,
Royal Trux,
Liliput,
Moby Grape,
Be Bop Deluxe,
kango's stein massive,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mantronix,
Icehouse,
Junior Murvin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Swans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultimate Spinach,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Morten Harket,
Albert Ayler,
Monks,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Althea and Donna,
X-101,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.