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 Japan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Halifax and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Al Stewart to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash,
David Bowie,
Lebanon Hanover,
kango's stein massive,
Black Bananas,
Sound Behaviour,
Harry Pussy,
The Gap Band,
Carl Craig,
MDC,
Roy Ayers,
The Gories,
The Moleskins,
June of 44,
Aswad,
The Mojo Men,
Severed Heads,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Kenny Larkin,
Gang Starr,
Altered Images,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pierre Henry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sister Nancy,
Scientists,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ituana,
Excepter,
Khruangbin,
The Toasters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Howard Jones,
Sällskapet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Ponytail,
Clear Light,
Deepchord,
Can,
Joy Division,
The Human League,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
a-ha,
Sun City Girls,
Scrapy,
Prince Buster,
Fatback Band,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Hood,
Jacques Brel,
Eric Dolphy,
Dawn Penn,
Quantec,
Derrick Morgan,
DJ Style,
Deadbeat,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.