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 Oman and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Charles Mingus to the disco 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Q and Not U,
Hashim,
Reuben Wilson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
Anthony Braxton,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Womack,
E-Dancer,
Second Layer,
Average White Band,
Minnie Riperton,
World's Most,
Los Fastidios,
The Beau Brummels,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Das Ding,
Graham Central Station,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Public Enemy,
Rosa Yemen,
Infiniti,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Delta 5,
The Fugs,
The Tremeloes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blackbyrds,
John Holt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Drexciya,
Country Joe & The Fish,
EPMD,
Byron Stingily,
Motorama,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Shoche,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ossler,
The Doors,
Eric Copeland,
Black Pus,
Flipper,
Ornette Coleman,
Erasure,
The Smiths,
The Cure,
Ultravox,
Yaz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sugar Minott,
Scratch Acid,
Blancmange,
Public Image Ltd.,
Howard Jones,
The Cowsills,
Lightning Bolt,
Sixth Finger,
Mission of Burma,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.