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 Peru and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Smoke to the jazz 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar 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 organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
The Young Rascals,
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
Mandrill,
Minnie Riperton,
Rakim,
The Motions,
Groovy Waters,
Heaven 17,
Basic Channel,
The United States of America,
Whodini,
Susan Cadogan,
Angry Samoans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eli Mardock,
Organ,
48th St. Collective,
The Searchers,
The Zeros,
Essential Logic,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fear,
L. Decosne,
Supertramp,
Excepter,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MDC,
Radio Birdman,
Ultravox,
Hot Snakes,
the Slits,
Barbara Tucker,
Von Mondo,
Niagra,
The Invisible,
Blake Baxter,
The Saints,
The Moleskins,
Donny Hathaway,
The Barracudas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Move,
Bluetip,
Ultimate Spinach,
ABBA,
Kevin Saunderson,
F. McDonald,
Sister Nancy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Amon Düül,
Jeff Mills,
Andrew Hill,
The Smiths,
Con Funk Shun,
Bang On A Can,
Depeche Mode,
Thompson Twins,
Pantytec,
Quantec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.