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 Hungary and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Jandek to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Grauzone,
Gong,
The Busters,
D'Angelo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
World's Most,
Little Man,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Robert Görl,
Leonard Cohen,
The Dead C,
Laurel Aitken,
Dave Gahan,
Althea and Donna,
Public Enemy,
Adolescents,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gun Club,
the Soft Cell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Smog,
Dead Boys,
Minor Threat,
Arab on Radar,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Susan Cadogan,
Boredoms,
The Dave Clark Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Terry Callier,
Basic Channel,
Suicide,
Mark Hollis,
The Mojo Men,
Blossom Toes,
Bobby Byrd,
Monolake,
Maleditus Sound,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ohio Players,
Lindisfarne,
ABBA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lightning Bolt,
Aloha Tigers,
John Holt,
Mad Mike,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
LL Cool J,
Pole,
Nick Fraelich,
Sight & Sound,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Victims,
Albert Ayler,
Goldenarms,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.