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 Guinea and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 DeepChord presents Echospace 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer 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 guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Minnie Riperton,
Kool Moe Dee,
New Age Steppers,
Kas Product,
Camberwell Now,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Circle Jerks,
The Seeds,
Groovy Waters,
Inner City,
Crime,
These Immortal Souls,
Gang of Four,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Organ,
Silicon Teens,
Arthur Verocai,
Excepter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Average White Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rapeman,
Maurizio,
Altered Images,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Swans,
The Standells,
Gang Starr,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pole,
The Stooges,
Rites of Spring,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pierre Henry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Japan,
Wasted Youth,
Symarip,
Derrick May,
Sugar Minott,
Todd Terry,
Ronan,
Prince Buster,
Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cymande,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Faraquet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
Agent Orange,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.