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 Zimbabwe and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lyres to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Icehouse,
Parry Music,
Josef K,
The Wake,
Cameo,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ossler,
Peter & Gordon,
Thee Headcoats,
Lalann,
John Coltrane,
Fela Kuti,
Brothers Johnson,
Kurtis Blow,
Cymande,
The Tremeloes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Radiohead,
Newcleus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joy Division,
Roxy Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Magma,
Nik Kershaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skaos,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fuzztones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bauhaus,
Moss Icon,
Flamin' Groovies,
FM Einheit,
Second Layer,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rod Modell,
Jimmy McGriff,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wire,
The Offenders,
Radiopuhelimet,
Byron Stingily,
Gabor Szabo,
Malaria!,
John Cale,
Heaven 17,
Yaz,
Ultra Naté,
Sex Pistols,
John Lydon,
Marvin Gaye,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.