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 Ireland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Lakeside,
Jeff Lynne,
Nico,
Black Moon,
48th St. Collective,
Hasil Adkins,
Anakelly,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
Spoonie Gee,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
Gichy Dan,
The Wake,
Darondo,
Das Ding,
Johnny Osbourne,
Avey Tare,
Black Flag,
Blancmange,
The Electric Prunes,
The Smiths,
Black Pus,
The Sound,
R.M.O.,
Skarface,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sandy B,
Sugar Minott,
Deakin,
Radiohead,
Kenny Larkin,
Flash Fearless,
The Dead C,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masters at Work,
Reuben Wilson,
Gabor Szabo,
The Velvet Underground,
Mantronix,
Wolf Eyes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camouflage,
The Durutti Column,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Count Five,
Tim Buckley,
The Monochrome Set,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
Al Stewart,
Laurel Aitken,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pulsallama,
Country Joe & The Fish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Yazoo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.