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 Macedonia and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Halifax.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ponytail to the funk 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
The Cure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Davy DMX,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Blues Magoos,
Young Marble Giants,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Liliput,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sister Nancy,
Section 25,
DJ Sneak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Anakelly,
Moby Grape,
Thee Headcoats,
Gong,
Vladislav Delay,
Kevin Saunderson,
Faraquet,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The New Christs,
The Gories,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Seeds,
The Divine Comedy,
K-Klass,
Massinfluence,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sam Rivers,
The Five Americans,
Los Fastidios,
Kurtis Blow,
Newcleus,
Joe Finger,
Franke,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Boredoms,
kango's stein massive,
Yazoo,
The Index,
Rotary Connection,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Pus,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Royal Trux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pet Shop Boys,
In Retrospect,
Delon & Dalcan,
Peter and Kerry,
Funkadelic,
The Stooges,
Organ,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.