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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Peter and Kerry to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Zero Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Unrelated Segments,
Boz Scaggs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Maurizio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roxette,
Jerry's Kids,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mantronix,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Soft Cell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stetsasonic,
The Mummies,
The Raincoats,
Prince Buster,
Arab on Radar,
Duran Duran,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Excepter,
The Black Dice,
Gong,
Fela Kuti,
Pierre Henry,
Derrick May,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joy Division,
Patti Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ultra Naté,
Faust,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
James White and The Blacks,
Severed Heads,
Funkadelic,
This Heat,
Icehouse,
Jandek,
Alice Coltrane,
La Düsseldorf,
The Birthday Party,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Magma,
Gang of Four,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
Crash Course in Science,
Pylon,
Shuggie Otis,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.