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 Syria and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Amazonics to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba 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 marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alison Limerick,
Fear,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Holt,
The Beau Brummels,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Move,
Popol Vuh,
Flash Fearless,
Nas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monks,
Porter Ricks,
Parry Music,
Michelle Simonal,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lebanon Hanover,
DJ Sneak,
Main Source,
Ornette Coleman,
Amon Düül,
Juan Atkins,
Fela Kuti,
Jimmy McGriff,
Public Image Ltd.,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lucky Dragons,
Iggy Pop,
The Leaves,
Pantaleimon,
Barbara Tucker,
Barrington Levy,
Danielle Patucci,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry's Kids,
Graham Central Station,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Electric Prunes,
Groovy Waters,
The Buckinghams,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marmalade,
Scan 7,
Albert Ayler,
Cymande,
Little Man,
The Standells,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sound Behaviour,
The Litter,
Minnie Riperton,
Gang Gang Dance,
ABBA,
Eurythmics,
The Stooges,
the Slits,
Essential Logic,
Harmonia,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.