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 Palau and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
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 Bill Near to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
FM Einheit,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Grass Roots,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sparks,
Hasil Adkins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dave Clark Five,
Blake Baxter,
The J.B.'s,
Stiv Bators,
Joey Negro,
Half Japanese,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Popol Vuh,
Gichy Dan,
Arab on Radar,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Massinfluence,
Rotary Connection,
KRS-One,
Make Up,
Trumans Water,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
ABBA,
Faraquet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Unwound,
David Axelrod,
Rekid,
Public Enemy,
Ludus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jacob Miller,
This Heat,
The Dirtbombs,
Youth Brigade,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joy Division,
DJ Style,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ponytail,
ABC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deepchord,
The Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
Crash Course in Science,
Procol Harum,
Sandy B,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Groovy Waters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mandrill,
Man Parrish,
Pylon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pole,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.