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 the UAE and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Yazoo to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a rhodes and a harpsichord 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 linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
Chris & Cosey,
Jerry's Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scion,
E-Dancer,
the Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Hoover,
Radiohead,
One Last Wish,
The Human League,
Eric Copeland,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Erykah Badu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
ABBA,
Byron Stingily,
Accadde A,
The Gap Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Massinfluence,
The Raincoats,
Rites of Spring,
Scrapy,
Vainqueur,
Pierre Henry,
Buzzcocks,
Sound Behaviour,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang Green,
The Angels of Light,
Monks,
Tommy Roe,
JFA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Von Mondo,
Junior Murvin,
Janne Schatter,
Icehouse,
Jacques Brel,
Public Enemy,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gories,
The Golliwogs,
Erasure,
Altered Images,
The Buckinghams,
The J.B.'s,
Zapp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fugazi,
New York Dolls,
Drexciya,
Pantaleimon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.