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 Serbia and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 MDC to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
K-Klass,
Masters at Work,
The Names,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Bowie,
Jimmy McGriff,
ABBA,
Funky Four + One,
Los Fastidios,
Slick Rick,
Angry Samoans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter & Gordon,
Fluxion,
Dual Sessions,
Sun City Girls,
This Heat,
The Saints,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joe Smooth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cal Tjader,
The Fuzztones,
B.T. Express,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Cramps,
Eli Mardock,
Godley & Creme,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ken Boothe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Second Layer,
Chris Corsano,
Graham Central Station,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gabor Szabo,
Tres Demented,
Todd Rundgren,
Jandek,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
KRS-One,
Hasil Adkins,
Pantaleimon,
Donald Byrd,
The Angels of Light,
Theoretical Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
the Soft Cell,
Section 25,
Bluetip,
Alton Ellis,
Mantronix,
Rekid,
Bronski Beat,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hot Snakes,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.