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 Switzerland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Bill Wells to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer 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 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dark Day,
Dave Gahan,
Neil Young,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Smoke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Crash Course in Science,
DNA,
Ronan,
Bang On A Can,
Absolute Body Control,
Surgeon,
Radiohead,
John Foxx,
Fad Gadget,
Brand Nubian,
Trumans Water,
Skriet,
Television,
David McCallum,
Cameo,
Youth Brigade,
Eddi Front,
Tommy Roe,
The Star Department,
Wally Richardson,
Yazoo,
The Monks,
Can,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Saints,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marvin Gaye,
Arab on Radar,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erasure,
Oneida,
Sandy B,
Ituana,
X-101,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scratch Acid,
Sam Rivers,
Blancmange,
Nik Kershaw,
Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
Pantytec,
Mad Mike,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kevin Saunderson,
Isaac Hayes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Agitation Free,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Techniques,
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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.