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 Dominica and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lightning Bolt,
Eli Mardock,
Bang On A Can,
Chris & Cosey,
Babytalk,
Fad Gadget,
Ponytail,
Technova,
Oneida,
Man Eating Sloth,
Oblivians,
Howard Jones,
Gang Green,
Fear,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Panda Bear,
Sex Pistols,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Metal Thangz,
Q and Not U,
Matthew Halsall,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Angels of Light,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wings,
Quadrant,
Kenny Larkin,
The Remains,
Audionom,
Amazonics,
Thompson Twins,
Skaos,
Bootsy Collins,
K-Klass,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang Starr,
June Days,
R.M.O.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Blancmange,
Visage,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.