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 Bhutan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Doors to the rock 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 an oboe and a linndrum 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 oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ossler,
New Order,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
cv313,
Bronski Beat,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jerry's Kids,
Bad Manners,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nik Kershaw,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Guru Guru,
The Smoke,
Neil Young,
Roger Hodgson,
The Stooges,
The Evens,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boredoms,
The Busters,
Arcadia,
Rotary Connection,
Q65,
Sarah Menescal,
Marvin Gaye,
Albert Ayler,
Cal Tjader,
Eden Ahbez,
The Cosmic Jokers,
UT,
FM Einheit,
Popol Vuh,
Rapeman,
Nirvana,
The Angels of Light,
Aaron Thompson,
Reagan Youth,
The Neon Judgement,
Trumans Water,
Altered Images,
Siglo XX,
Robert Görl,
Wasted Youth,
Gichy Dan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ultimate Spinach,
DJ Sneak,
Davy DMX,
Morten Harket,
the Fania All-Stars,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sällskapet,
John Holt,
Quantec,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.