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 Canada and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radiohead to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes 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 mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Morten Harket,
The Vogues,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cal Tjader,
Delta 5,
Peter & Gordon,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Christie,
Soulsonic Force,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Slits,
Simply Red,
Dual Sessions,
Joyce Sims,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reagan Youth,
Toni Rubio,
Half Japanese,
Marvin Gaye,
Cheater Slicks,
Andrew Hill,
The Smoke,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radio Birdman,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ronan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scratch Acid,
Ronnie Foster,
Das Ding,
Dark Day,
Alton Ellis,
Tomorrow,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blackbyrds,
Hashim,
Gang Green,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brass Construction,
Echospace,
cv313,
the Sonics,
Barbara Tucker,
Lungfish,
Crooked Eye,
The Human League,
Desert Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Intrusion,
Rotary Connection,
Porter Ricks,
The Gories,
Pagans,
Tubeway Army,
Rod Modell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visage,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.