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 Uganda and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ronan 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The American Breed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet 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 harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gories,
The Cramps,
Lower 48,
Yaz,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marmalade,
New York Dolls,
Soft Cell,
Minor Threat,
Bang On A Can,
Arab on Radar,
Crispy Ambulance,
Byron Stingily,
La Düsseldorf,
Sugar Minott,
Soft Machine,
Lyres,
John Cale,
Minny Pops,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Moleskins,
Pagans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Near,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flash Fearless,
Cluster,
Clear Light,
Television Personalities,
Nik Kershaw,
Jacob Miller,
The Tremeloes,
The Toasters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Rundgren,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Lydon,
Skarface,
Kayak,
Magazine,
Ornette Coleman,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Prince Buster,
DJ Style,
Inner City,
Lou Christie,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pole,
F. McDonald,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang of Four,
Max Romeo,
Mission of Burma,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.