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 Finland and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 Peter and Kerry to the jazz 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
New York Dolls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crooked Eye,
L. Decosne,
Duran Duran,
James White and The Blacks,
Aswad,
Crash Course in Science,
Rapeman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gichy Dan,
Eric Copeland,
Ultra Naté,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moleskins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Brand Nubian,
Porter Ricks,
Scientists,
Gerry Rafferty,
World's Most,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Dead C,
The Vogues,
Derrick May,
The Wake,
The Shadows of Knight,
Don Cherry,
Bauhaus,
Jerry's Kids,
Kerri Chandler,
Monolake,
Technova,
Agent Orange,
Chris Corsano,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gap Band,
Subhumans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quadrant,
Rekid,
The Techniques,
Deepchord,
Yazoo,
The Fugs,
FM Einheit,
Ludus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Easy Going,
The Cure,
Davy DMX,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Chrome,
Kevin Saunderson,
Motorama,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
F. McDonald,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sonic Youth,
This Heat,
Q and Not U,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.