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 Laos and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Colin Newman to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Sound Behaviour,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hardrive,
Drive Like Jehu,
Qualms,
Nick Fraelich,
Roy Ayers,
Jandek,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Faraquet,
This Heat,
Ten City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Sheep,
The Leaves,
Basic Channel,
The Litter,
Cybotron,
Soulsonic Force,
Radiohead,
Robert Görl,
Kayak,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
AZ,
Piero Umiliani,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
New Age Steppers,
Quadrant,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Buckinghams,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Motions,
Archie Shepp,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobby Byrd,
Tubeway Army,
Agent Orange,
Los Fastidios,
Section 25,
Fad Gadget,
The Busters,
Marc Almond,
Eve St. Jones,
Mo-Dettes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moebius,
Whodini,
Absolute Body Control,
Dorothy Ashby,
Malaria!,
Funky Four + One,
Peter and Kerry,
Sixth Finger,
Todd Rundgren,
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.