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 Belarus and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Henry Cow to the grime 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Wally Richardson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron 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 organ and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Severed Heads,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Reuben Wilson,
Icehouse,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Selecter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Monochrome Set,
Von Mondo,
Nils Olav,
Altered Images,
Dark Day,
The Doobie Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Massinfluence,
Brass Construction,
David Bowie,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lyres,
Morten Harket,
Mars,
Sexual Harrassment,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aural Exciters,
X-101,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker,
Nick Fraelich,
DNA,
Khruangbin,
Country Teasers,
Interpol,
Joy Division,
Warren Ellis,
Average White Band,
Wally Richardson,
Cal Tjader,
The Buckinghams,
Davy DMX,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rosa Yemen,
Crispian St. Peters,
James White and The Blacks,
Japan,
Sister Nancy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Young Rascals,
New Age Steppers,
The Tremeloes,
Funky Four + One,
Jawbox,
Los Fastidios,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Colin Newman,
Kayak,
Wire,
Kenny Larkin,
Suburban Knight,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.