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 Kuwait and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lou Christie to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin 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 spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
Gang Green,
Anthony Braxton,
Donny Hathaway,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Carl Craig,
Bad Manners,
Bang On A Can,
Roxette,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gregory Isaacs,
Banda Bassotti,
JFA,
The Star Department,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grey Daturas,
Vainqueur,
Dual Sessions,
the Soft Cell,
Kenny Larkin,
Organ,
Lalo Schifrin,
Little Man,
Porter Ricks,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul Sonic Force,
David Axelrod,
Tres Demented,
Alice Coltrane,
The Residents,
Oneida,
The Fugs,
Section 25,
Tom Boy,
H. Thieme,
Warren Ellis,
Leonard Cohen,
The Young Rascals,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Prunes,
Excepter,
Urselle,
L. Decosne,
Dawn Penn,
Cymande,
X-101,
Colin Newman,
Henry Cow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The New Christs,
Sam Rivers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Loose Ends,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Grauzone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.