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 Russia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a linndrum 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 sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Scion,
the Swans,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Isaac Hayes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marine Girls,
Lungfish,
Index,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fat Boys,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Oblivians,
Barrington Levy,
The Seeds,
John Foxx,
Gabor Szabo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brand Nubian,
Gang Green,
Swell Maps,
Metal Thangz,
Mantronix,
Television Personalities,
Tomorrow,
Theoretical Girls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Mills,
Section 25,
DJ Sneak,
Newcleus,
Roy Ayers,
Sixth Finger,
The Slits,
Joensuu 1685,
Bush Tetras,
Lalann,
Nils Olav,
Hashim,
Eurythmics,
Cal Tjader,
Junior Murvin,
Second Layer,
Quantec,
Masters at Work,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amazonics,
Yellowson,
Bad Manners,
Rosa Yemen,
Mars,
Black Pus,
Saccharine Trust,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.