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 Japan and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Calgary.
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 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 Lou Reed 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 Peter and Kerry to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
The Associates,
Roy Ayers,
Drexciya,
Sparks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pagans,
June of 44,
Alice Coltrane,
Ronan,
Can,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultra Naté,
Hasil Adkins,
Franke,
Erykah Badu,
Rakim,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric B and Rakim,
Colin Newman,
Minor Threat,
JFA,
Eli Mardock,
R.M.O.,
Japan,
Blancmange,
Cybotron,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David McCallum,
New Order,
John Holt,
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Smooth,
Eden Ahbez,
Reagan Youth,
Country Teasers,
Darondo,
Liliput,
Josef K,
John Foxx,
Groovy Waters,
Tres Demented,
Dave Gahan,
Neu!,
DNA,
T.S.O.L.,
Sun Ra,
Fluxion,
Bobby Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Green,
Eric Dolphy,
Porter Ricks,
KRS-One,
Crash Course in Science,
MDC,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Boredoms,
X-101,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.