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 Cyprus and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pulsallama to the techno 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet 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 chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Spandau Ballet,
Flash Fearless,
Procol Harum,
The Moleskins,
Susan Cadogan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Associates,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roxette,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Colin Newman,
Country Teasers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Visage,
World's Most,
Yellowson,
The Gap Band,
The Techniques,
a-ha,
Terry Callier,
The Golliwogs,
The Barracudas,
David Axelrod,
Chris Corsano,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gories,
MC5,
Bobby Sherman,
Thompson Twins,
Black Bananas,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang of Four,
The Blackbyrds,
Traffic Nightmare,
Yusef Lateef,
Simply Red,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Yaz,
The Cure,
the Human League,
Sparks,
Minutemen,
Essential Logic,
Black Pus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Franke,
The Divine Comedy,
Andrew Hill,
Hasil Adkins,
Jandek,
Wally Richardson,
Eve St. Jones,
Duran Duran,
The Count Five,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.