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 Palau and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar 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 rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Scrapy,
Isaac Hayes,
The Birthday Party,
David Axelrod,
Au Pairs,
Juan Atkins,
The Human League,
The Smoke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
This Heat,
Alton Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Jerry's Kids,
Byron Stingily,
Gregory Isaacs,
Main Source,
Tom Boy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Josef K,
Yellowson,
The Associates,
Man Parrish,
Avey Tare,
Bill Wells,
T.S.O.L.,
Matthew Bourne,
Angry Samoans,
Marine Girls,
Outsiders,
Masters at Work,
Joensuu 1685,
Cameo,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Moody Blues,
The Selecter,
Sällskapet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dave Gahan,
Pussy Galore,
Bob Dylan,
Cybotron,
JFA,
Sun City Girls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Oblivians,
Saccharine Trust,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cymande,
Absolute Body Control,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
AZ,
Bush Tetras,
Jawbox,
John Coltrane,
Eli Mardock,
The Slackers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.