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 Luxembourg and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Infiniti to the grime 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum 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 oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Wyatt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pantaleimon,
Bad Manners,
Buzzcocks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blossom Toes,
Lungfish,
Peter & Gordon,
The Invisible,
Kerri Chandler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Quantec,
Visage,
The Fortunes,
Duran Duran,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Royal Trux,
The Wake,
Harmonia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Index,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fugs,
The Music Machine,
Brothers Johnson,
Mars,
The Dirtbombs,
Tim Buckley,
Absolute Body Control,
Moss Icon,
Trumans Water,
Main Source,
The Birthday Party,
Clear Light,
R.M.O.,
T. Rex,
The Zeros,
Pharoah Sanders,
Y Pants,
Altered Images,
Andrew Hill,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gladiators,
Donald Byrd,
Tom Boy,
Alton Ellis,
These Immortal Souls,
Piero Umiliani,
The Count Five,
The Gun Club,
Banda Bassotti,
Scratch Acid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.