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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Zeros to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes 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 oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Terry Callier,
Groovy Waters,
Bush Tetras,
Underground Resistance,
Minny Pops,
Zapp,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boogie Down Productions,
The Litter,
FM Einheit,
Todd Terry,
10cc,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Altered Images,
Panda Bear,
R.M.O.,
Newcleus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Doobie Brothers,
Soft Cell,
Isaac Hayes,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Barracudas,
Todd Rundgren,
The Blackbyrds,
The Motions,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Flag,
Laurel Aitken,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
D'Angelo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hashim,
The Searchers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visage,
Maurizio,
Archie Shepp,
Tomorrow,
Monolake,
Danielle Patucci,
The Vogues,
The Mojo Men,
Yellowson,
The Sound,
Patti Smith,
Minor Threat,
Massinfluence,
Ken Boothe,
Little Man,
Section 25,
The Angels of Light,
Jeru the Damaja,
Essential Logic,
Arcadia,
Soft Machine,
Television Personalities,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.