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 Swaziland and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Gap Band to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 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 chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Schoolly D,
Trumans Water,
Dennis Brown,
Magma,
Metal Thangz,
Aloha Tigers,
Warsaw,
Average White Band,
John Lydon,
Marine Girls,
Ludus,
Depeche Mode,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fire Engines,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
James White and The Blacks,
Slave,
Lou Reed,
Barclay James Harvest,
The New Christs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Offenders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Godley & Creme,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Invisible,
The Techniques,
Deakin,
Prince Buster,
Tears for Fears,
The Last Poets,
Bush Tetras,
The Fugs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cal Tjader,
The Durutti Column,
Buzzcocks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Angels of Light,
Letta Mbulu,
Skriet,
Quando Quango,
Swell Maps,
Jeff Lynne,
Bill Wells,
Procol Harum,
F. McDonald,
Bauhaus,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Japan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kenny Larkin,
Angry Samoans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dirtbombs,
The Birthday Party,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.