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 Costa Rica and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Scion to the electroclash 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a harpsichord 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 synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joey Negro,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Masters at Work,
Brick,
Pharoah Sanders,
June Days,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
PIL,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang Green,
Blossom Toes,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Sonics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gladiators,
Royal Trux,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
June of 44,
Lindisfarne,
The Martian,
Youth Brigade,
Alison Limerick,
Jandek,
Depeche Mode,
Parry Music,
Pere Ubu,
10cc,
Warsaw,
The Skatalites,
Stetsasonic,
Yazoo,
Zapp,
Sällskapet,
Q and Not U,
Matthew Halsall,
Bush Tetras,
The Velvet Underground,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Matthew Bourne,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Todd Terry,
Ituana,
Gichy Dan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Echospace,
Q65,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Subhumans,
Aswad,
MC5,
Carl Craig,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
ABC,
Roxette,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.