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 Vietnam and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the grunge 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nirvana,
Sam Rivers,
Blossom Toes,
Joe Smooth,
Deepchord,
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
Joyce Sims,
Grey Daturas,
Spandau Ballet,
Audionom,
Parry Music,
Intrusion,
Duran Duran,
Nation of Ulysses,
Main Source,
Nico,
Blake Baxter,
Charles Mingus,
Popol Vuh,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Golliwogs,
Marine Girls,
Siglo XX,
UT,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Toni Rubio,
Cameo,
Theoretical Girls,
10cc,
Suicide,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arthur Verocai,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Human League,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Bourne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Guru Guru,
David Bowie,
The Mummies,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Hood,
OOIOO,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
X-101,
Sixth Finger,
Nils Olav,
The Martian,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
D'Angelo,
The Names,
Sun Ra,
Marshall Jefferson,
The American Breed,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.