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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Eli Mardock to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator 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 synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Easy Going,
John Cale,
cv313,
Scott Walker,
The Flesh Eaters,
Harmonia,
48th St. Collective,
Gang of Four,
Deepchord,
Infiniti,
Alton Ellis,
Yazoo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quadrant,
Black Bananas,
Crash Course in Science,
X-Ray Spex,
Spandau Ballet,
Hot Snakes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rekid,
Derrick Morgan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Charles Mingus,
Kaleidoscope,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sandy B,
Von Mondo,
The Busters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Unrelated Segments,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fat Boys,
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
Sixth Finger,
The Stooges,
The Happenings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sight & Sound,
The Trojans,
Janne Schatter,
UT,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scratch Acid,
Slave,
The Dirtbombs,
Flash Fearless,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Swell Maps,
Zero Boys,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zapp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Los Fastidios,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rakim,
Technova,
Mark Hollis,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.