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 Singapore and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Adolescents to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin 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 mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
Los Fastidios,
Gabor Szabo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Moleskins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Saccharine Trust,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
China Crisis,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Con Funk Shun,
Ice-T,
Agent Orange,
Scientists,
X-101,
FM Einheit,
Nirvana,
Ronnie Foster,
Organ,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Harpers Bizarre,
Audionom,
The Index,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Charles Mingus,
Barry Ungar,
The Real Kids,
In Retrospect,
Guru Guru,
Rod Modell,
Hashim,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Motorama,
The Selecter,
Brothers Johnson,
Duran Duran,
The Last Poets,
Subhumans,
This Heat,
Pulsallama,
Cameo,
James White and The Blacks,
Kayak,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cramps,
The Kinks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rosa Yemen,
Japan,
Lucky Dragons,
Deakin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Radiopuhelimet,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.