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 Iran and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Janne Schatter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron 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 güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Bang On A Can,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ten City,
L. Decosne,
Gang Starr,
Chris & Cosey,
Maleditus Sound,
Sight & Sound,
The New Christs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
kango's stein massive,
Sound Behaviour,
a-ha,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang Gang Dance,
Interpol,
Derrick Morgan,
Sparks,
Morten Harket,
The Evens,
Dennis Brown,
Second Layer,
Ossler,
Mission of Burma,
Bauhaus,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arcadia,
Thompson Twins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Residents,
Q and Not U,
Juan Atkins,
Tears for Fears,
Jerry's Kids,
The Busters,
The Cure,
Dawn Penn,
K-Klass,
Darondo,
Jandek,
Zapp,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gap Band,
Ponytail,
DJ Style,
Robert Wyatt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rotary Connection,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Minor Threat,
The Divine Comedy,
Cal Tjader,
Eden Ahbez,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.