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 Benin and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Lou Reed 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 Quando Quango to the jazz 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Sight & Sound,
Loose Ends,
Judy Mowatt,
ABC,
Pulsallama,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Saints,
Josef K,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
48th St. Collective,
The Selecter,
One Last Wish,
The New Christs,
David Bowie,
Howard Jones,
Reagan Youth,
Al Stewart,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The American Breed,
Marine Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Talk Talk,
Jawbox,
Flamin' Groovies,
Guru Guru,
Arcadia,
Wolf Eyes,
The Stooges,
Brothers Johnson,
Aswad,
David McCallum,
cv313,
ABBA,
Marvin Gaye,
Scrapy,
Soul II Soul,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Faust,
Adolescents,
This Heat,
The Sound,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Human League,
Black Bananas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alice Coltrane,
Matthew Halsall,
The Music Machine,
Pole,
Sun Ra,
Young Marble Giants,
Robert Hood,
The Smiths,
Anakelly,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed,
Jacob Miller,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joy Division,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.