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 Comoros and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Little Man to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and a harpsichord 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Basic Channel,
The Doors,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Symarip,
Au Pairs,
Blake Baxter,
Los Fastidios,
UT,
Mandrill,
Darondo,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Blossom Toes,
James White and The Blacks,
Circle Jerks,
Yellowson,
Goldenarms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Minor Threat,
Barbara Tucker,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Henry Cow,
Vainqueur,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Red Krayola,
Masters at Work,
Crooked Eye,
These Immortal Souls,
Susan Cadogan,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moss Icon,
Bad Manners,
Derrick Morgan,
Kaleidoscope,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jacob Miller,
Faraquet,
Ornette Coleman,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pere Ubu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Piero Umiliani,
Gong,
Peter and Kerry,
The Walker Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Mad Mike,
Ossler,
Harmonia,
The Black Dice,
Dual Sessions,
Chrome,
DNA,
The Pretty Things,
Electric Prunes,
Swans,
Donald Byrd,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.