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 Honduras and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Winnipeg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kevin Saunderson to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Juan Atkins,
Brand Nubian,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fela Kuti,
The Count Five,
Mars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Christie,
Flash Fearless,
The Selecter,
Isaac Hayes,
Nik Kershaw,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roxette,
The Buckinghams,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Evens,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tommy Roe,
Monolake,
The Fuzztones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Smooth,
The Invisible,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Searchers,
Josef K,
Sparks,
Dave Gahan,
Young Marble Giants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Cramps,
Mo-Dettes,
June Days,
Bang On A Can,
Spoonie Gee,
Stiv Bators,
Lower 48,
Icehouse,
Oneida,
cv313,
Harry Pussy,
Desert Stars,
The Offenders,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sexual Harrassment,
ABC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Amazonics,
This Heat,
Sandy B,
Aswad,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
Buzzcocks,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.