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 Paraguay and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
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 sitar 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 Marshall Jefferson to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
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,
Bootsy Collins,
Terry Callier,
Con Funk Shun,
Little Man,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Basic Channel,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Albert Ayler,
Stiv Bators,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kenny Larkin,
Camberwell Now,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Residents,
The Fire Engines,
Funky Four + One,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Foxx,
Junior Murvin,
Sex Pistols,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sällskapet,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
One Last Wish,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
Erasure,
Duran Duran,
Blake Baxter,
the Fania All-Stars,
Metal Thangz,
cv313,
The Leaves,
Gichy Dan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultravox,
Scan 7,
Bobby Womack,
Ken Boothe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Standells,
Lou Christie,
the Bar-Kays,
Lee Hazlewood,
A Certain Ratio,
Al Stewart,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Kinks,
New Order,
Funkadelic,
The Cowsills,
Piero Umiliani,
The Divine Comedy,
The Trojans,
The Smiths,
Gang Green,
Sister Nancy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.