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 Guyana and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bluetip to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Little Man,
Zero Boys,
the Sonics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
Sparks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Stooges,
Audionom,
Blossom Toes,
Dave Gahan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harry Pussy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Subhumans,
Y Pants,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun City Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Kevin Saunderson,
Albert Ayler,
Basic Channel,
Joe Smooth,
Interpol,
Rites of Spring,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fela Kuti,
Organ,
Gang Starr,
Bobby Womack,
David McCallum,
Colin Newman,
AZ,
The Music Machine,
Iggy Pop,
The Grass Roots,
Andrew Hill,
Rapeman,
The Smiths,
Girls At Our Best!,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Misunderstood,
Quadrant,
The Happenings,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Roy Ayers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rakim,
Morten Harket,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Man Parrish,
The Monks,
China Crisis,
Aloha Tigers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Carl Craig,
This Heat,
Judy Mowatt,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.