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 Dominican Republic and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flash Fearless to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet 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 linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Neon Judgement,
Fear,
Chris & Cosey,
Ituana,
PIL,
Todd Terry,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soft Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eli Mardock,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
The Dirtbombs,
Desert Stars,
The Smiths,
The Angels of Light,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerri Chandler,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alphaville,
Accadde A,
The Misunderstood,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Niagra,
Magma,
Smog,
Altered Images,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pole,
The Raincoats,
La Düsseldorf,
Marc Almond,
Boredoms,
Cymande,
Thee Headcoats,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Average White Band,
Index,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sällskapet,
E-Dancer,
June of 44,
The Trojans,
Radio Birdman,
Cheater Slicks,
Livin' Joy,
Chris Corsano,
Black Moon,
Oblivians,
Newcleus,
Junior Murvin,
The Invisible,
Zero Boys,
Bill Near,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unwound,
The Standells,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.