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 Sudan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Little Man to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lindisfarne,
Quantec,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Severed Heads,
Susan Cadogan,
Danielle Patucci,
Maurizio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Peter and Kerry,
Eden Ahbez,
Pet Shop Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker,
Eric Dolphy,
Morten Harket,
The Moody Blues,
In Retrospect,
The Gap Band,
The Busters,
Moebius,
June Days,
the Association,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cameo,
Circle Jerks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Qualms,
Eli Mardock,
Alphaville,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alton Ellis,
JFA,
Black Pus,
The Monochrome Set,
Traffic Nightmare,
a-ha,
Dawn Penn,
Flash Fearless,
The Cramps,
Fela Kuti,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
The Gories,
Piero Umiliani,
Surgeon,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Litter,
David Axelrod,
Connie Case,
Gang Green,
Sister Nancy,
The Invisible,
Dorothy Ashby,
ABBA,
Essential Logic,
Motorama,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.