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 the UAE and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lee Hazlewood to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb 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 theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
The Index,
Stereo Dub,
Rotary Connection,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Misunderstood,
Fear,
The J.B.'s,
Banda Bassotti,
The New Christs,
The Walker Brothers,
Sandy B,
Josef K,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Order,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül,
Drexciya,
Quando Quango,
Duran Duran,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pole,
Cecil Taylor,
JFA,
Barbara Tucker,
Television,
The Gun Club,
Bob Dylan,
Theoretical Girls,
Eli Mardock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Smiths,
Charles Mingus,
The Slackers,
The Seeds,
Intrusion,
Morten Harket,
Eden Ahbez,
X-Ray Spex,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pylon,
EPMD,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
Average White Band,
Scientists,
the Swans,
Grey Daturas,
Tubeway Army,
The Cure,
Magazine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Barrington Levy,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.