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 Korea North and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Schoolly D to the disco 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a spring reverb 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 spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pierre Henry,
T.S.O.L.,
Blake Baxter,
Cymande,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Byrd,
Scott Walker,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pere Ubu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mighty Diamonds,
One Last Wish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Cale,
Scratch Acid,
David Axelrod,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Bananas,
Tomorrow,
Make Up,
Supertramp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Toni Rubio,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
Heaven 17,
L. Decosne,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vladislav Delay,
Franke,
John Coltrane,
Yaz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shoche,
Bush Tetras,
Guru Guru,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Slave,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stereo Dub,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Bar-Kays,
The Invisible,
Tres Demented,
La Düsseldorf,
The Birthday Party,
Barry Ungar,
Neu!,
Brick,
Fear,
Malaria!,
Junior Murvin,
the Fania All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.