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 Australia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 Nik Kershaw to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes 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 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Wire,
Goldenarms,
Interpol,
Tears for Fears,
Ice-T,
Rapeman,
Jandek,
Banda Bassotti,
Anakelly,
Steve Hackett,
Porter Ricks,
Young Marble Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Mark Hollis,
Babytalk,
Groovy Waters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Suicide,
Al Stewart,
Cal Tjader,
Robert Hood,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Dead C,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pantaleimon,
The Vogues,
Angry Samoans,
Archie Shepp,
Bad Manners,
The Angels of Light,
Technova,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Tim Buckley,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marcia Griffiths,
Warren Ellis,
Intrusion,
The Monochrome Set,
The Mojo Men,
Fat Boys,
Nirvana,
Sixth Finger,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Litter,
Dennis Brown,
The Slackers,
Amon Düül,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dead Boys,
Mad Mike,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.