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 Fiji and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roy Ayers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin 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 sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Warren Ellis,
Public Enemy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eli Mardock,
The Happenings,
Los Fastidios,
Alice Coltrane,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Agent Orange,
The Zeros,
Kayak,
the Human League,
Masters at Work,
The Stooges,
A Flock of Seagulls,
ABC,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
June Days,
Patti Smith,
Aural Exciters,
The Leaves,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bauhaus,
The Associates,
Bill Near,
Simply Red,
Cybotron,
Visage,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Golliwogs,
The Electric Prunes,
Moby Grape,
Hoover,
Barbara Tucker,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dead C,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Smog,
Excepter,
Reagan Youth,
Roger Hodgson,
The United States of America,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
Isaac Hayes,
Dorothy Ashby,
PIL,
Niagra,
Groovy Waters,
Anakelly,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Royal Trux,
The Doors,
Rotary Connection,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.