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 Zambia and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Drive Like Jehu to the grime 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
The Monochrome Set,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Derrick Morgan,
Talk Talk,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Piero Umiliani,
The Martian,
Con Funk Shun,
Whodini,
Laurel Aitken,
Ash Ra Tempel,
David Axelrod,
Rhythm & Sound,
ABC,
Lucky Dragons,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Depeche Mode,
James Chance & The Contortions,
James White and The Blacks,
Amon Düül II,
Supertramp,
Agitation Free,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fat Boys,
Wally Richardson,
Chris & Cosey,
Mr. Review,
Barrington Levy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
In Retrospect,
Joey Negro,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Janne Schatter,
Marine Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Gabor Szabo,
The American Breed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ornette Coleman,
Delta 5,
John Cale,
The Move,
Eurythmics,
Rites of Spring,
Fluxion,
The Trojans,
The Durutti Column,
The Real Kids,
Drexciya,
Subhumans,
Dual Sessions,
Mad Mike,
Marc Almond,
Pulsallama,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.