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 Suriname and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Sonics to the grunge 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
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,
Robert Hood,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pulsallama,
The Residents,
Andrew Hill,
Soul II Soul,
Sex Pistols,
Second Layer,
Sällskapet,
Severed Heads,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sonny Sharrock,
X-102,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joey Negro,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Panda Bear,
Kerri Chandler,
Yusef Lateef,
Anthony Braxton,
Guru Guru,
Procol Harum,
Dorothy Ashby,
James White and The Blacks,
Newcleus,
Bluetip,
Agent Orange,
Donald Byrd,
The Barracudas,
Sun Ra,
Isaac Hayes,
Ten City,
Japan,
Funky Four + One,
Black Bananas,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fall,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Davy DMX,
Glenn Branca,
Gregory Isaacs,
Masters at Work,
Chris Corsano,
Yazoo,
Siglo XX,
Black Sheep,
Tim Buckley,
Bronski Beat,
Mantronix,
Hoover,
Simply Red,
Idris Muhammad,
Rotary Connection,
Technova,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fela Kuti,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.