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 Montenegro and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 Isaac Hayes to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang of Four,
Vainqueur,
The Wake,
X-101,
DJ Sneak,
Brick,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Talk Talk,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flash Fearless,
the Soft Cell,
Panda Bear,
Cluster,
Masters at Work,
Bronski Beat,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joe Smooth,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
Parry Music,
Radio Birdman,
Toni Rubio,
Chris & Cosey,
Matthew Bourne,
Wally Richardson,
Symarip,
The Evens,
Average White Band,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
The Buckinghams,
Soft Cell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Blancmange,
Sugar Minott,
Dark Day,
Sexual Harrassment,
Neu!,
Fear,
Groovy Waters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gong,
Lee Hazlewood,
Whodini,
The Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Bauhaus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wolf Eyes,
Circle Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
Electric Prunes,
The Alarm Clocks,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Knickerbockers,
Reagan Youth,
The J.B.'s,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.