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 Georgia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 the Association to the crunk 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Janne Schatter,
Rotary Connection,
Anakelly,
Altered Images,
Byron Stingily,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Howard Jones,
The Sonics,
Adolescents,
Lower 48,
The Searchers,
Erykah Badu,
Brass Construction,
Maleditus Sound,
The Names,
Curtis Mayfield,
EPMD,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fad Gadget,
the Germs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cameo,
Carl Craig,
The Mummies,
Urselle,
The Happenings,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oblivians,
Jeff Lynne,
The Electric Prunes,
Fluxion,
Shoche,
the Swans,
Idris Muhammad,
The Modern Lovers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sparks,
Quadrant,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deepchord,
Lalo Schifrin,
Blancmange,
L. Decosne,
The Trojans,
MC5,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Five Americans,
The Knickerbockers,
Bang On A Can,
Babytalk,
Rod Modell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Max Romeo,
Mo-Dettes,
Althea and Donna,
Nas,
Hashim,
Harry Pussy,
Ornette Coleman,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.