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 Costa Rica and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Funky Four + One to the punk 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a clarinet 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 spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiohead,
Mary Jane Girls,
Guru Guru,
Dave Gahan,
The Beau Brummels,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed,
Magazine,
Niagra,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Wyatt,
The Evens,
The Neon Judgement,
Duran Duran,
Henry Cow,
Ossler,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Stooges,
Banda Bassotti,
Bauhaus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joensuu 1685,
Khruangbin,
Motorama,
Rekid,
Monolake,
Gong,
Symarip,
Public Enemy,
Eric B and Rakim,
MDC,
Sun City Girls,
Althea and Donna,
The New Christs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gories,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barclay James Harvest,
Harry Pussy,
Maleditus Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Neil Young,
Jerry's Kids,
Depeche Mode,
Darondo,
Graham Central Station,
Eric Copeland,
The Barracudas,
Kerri Chandler,
Toni Rubio,
Malaria!,
The United States of America,
a-ha,
Faraquet,
The Names,
Ponytail,
Bootsy Collins,
Donald Byrd,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.