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 Netherlands and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Minnie Riperton to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar 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 synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Yellowson,
The Smiths,
Brass Construction,
Tom Boy,
Franke,
Skriet,
Lalann,
Arthur Verocai,
The Monochrome Set,
Sight & Sound,
Funkadelic,
Japan,
Skaos,
Marshall Jefferson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Popol Vuh,
Deadbeat,
The Five Americans,
Television Personalities,
Donald Byrd,
Barclay James Harvest,
Circle Jerks,
The Neon Judgement,
Quadrant,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camberwell Now,
Black Moon,
Amazonics,
the Normal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare,
MDC,
The Residents,
Tommy Roe,
Al Stewart,
X-Ray Spex,
the Soft Cell,
New Order,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sound Behaviour,
Sun City Girls,
EPMD,
Grauzone,
Erykah Badu,
Max Romeo,
Grey Daturas,
Gang of Four,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visage,
Radio Birdman,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Angels of Light,
Black Flag,
X-102,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.