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 Guinea-Bissau and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Taipei.
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 snare 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Letta Mbulu,
Sight & Sound,
Kool Moe Dee,
PIL,
Adolescents,
F. McDonald,
The Remains,
The Move,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Panda Bear,
Howard Jones,
Matthew Halsall,
The Durutti Column,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Black Sheep,
Scion,
The Red Krayola,
Supertramp,
Michelle Simonal,
B.T. Express,
John Cale,
Pylon,
Kerri Chandler,
CMW,
The Doobie Brothers,
Essential Logic,
Dennis Brown,
Lakeside,
Morten Harket,
Bang On A Can,
Radiohead,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cluster,
Erasure,
Tubeway Army,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
New York Dolls,
The Stooges,
The Moody Blues,
Rufus Thomas,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Smoke,
The Seeds,
Funky Four + One,
Sixth Finger,
Country Teasers,
Gang of Four,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wally Richardson,
Bill Wells,
Judy Mowatt,
Wire,
Severed Heads,
Pole,
X-102,
Harmonia,
Frankie Knuckles,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rites of Spring,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.