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 Philippines and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Busters to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator 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 sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Walker Brothers,
Rakim,
The Moleskins,
the Human League,
The Litter,
Porter Ricks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fear,
Flash Fearless,
The Busters,
Freddie Wadling,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
10cc,
Mantronix,
The Fuzztones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Swell Maps,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gladiators,
Model 500,
Spandau Ballet,
Technova,
Kenny Larkin,
Tears for Fears,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roxy Music,
Excepter,
Radio Birdman,
Youth Brigade,
Chris & Cosey,
Nirvana,
The Sonics,
Jeru the Damaja,
Suburban Knight,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Standells,
Eurythmics,
Basic Channel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Slave,
Erasure,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DNA,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Vainqueur,
Q and Not U,
Shuggie Otis,
Isaac Hayes,
Inner City,
Surgeon,
Godley & Creme,
Angry Samoans,
New York Dolls,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.