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 Iraq and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Andrew Hill to the punk 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare 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 spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Newcleus,
Hasil Adkins,
Organ,
Quadrant,
Crash Course in Science,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Basic Channel,
The Angels of Light,
Howard Jones,
Oneida,
Ralphi Rosario,
a-ha,
The Cramps,
Soulsonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lalann,
Susan Cadogan,
Visage,
The United States of America,
Loose Ends,
Letta Mbulu,
The Shadows of Knight,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Be Bop Deluxe,
ABC,
Ten City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Radio Birdman,
Liliput,
AZ,
Erasure,
Absolute Body Control,
The Searchers,
Al Stewart,
Stetsasonic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown,
Motorama,
Average White Band,
Neu!,
Nils Olav,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Tremeloes,
Panda Bear,
Monks,
B.T. Express,
China Crisis,
Gang of Four,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Swans,
Depeche Mode,
Ronnie Foster,
Carl Craig,
Guru Guru,
T. Rex,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.