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 Samoa and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 The Techniques to the jazz 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes 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 guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tom Boy,
Davy DMX,
The Slackers,
Circle Jerks,
The Associates,
Dead Boys,
Parry Music,
The Mummies,
Erasure,
Lower 48,
Intrusion,
Adolescents,
Tim Buckley,
Flash Fearless,
Gregory Isaacs,
Juan Atkins,
Deadbeat,
PIL,
The Mojo Men,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Das Ding,
Jeff Lynne,
Agitation Free,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Q and Not U,
Connie Case,
Roger Hodgson,
The Cramps,
Bang On A Can,
Arab on Radar,
Excepter,
EPMD,
Procol Harum,
The Fall,
David Bowie,
Judy Mowatt,
Camouflage,
Skriet,
10cc,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultra Naté,
The Gladiators,
The Velvet Underground,
Urselle,
Duran Duran,
Unrelated Segments,
June Days,
Scratch Acid,
Eve St. Jones,
Maleditus Sound,
Oblivians,
Infiniti,
Maurizio,
Toni Rubio,
Tears for Fears,
June of 44,
Slave,
Janne Schatter,
Rufus Thomas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.