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 Belize and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
48th St. Collective,
Roger Hodgson,
Bush Tetras,
La Düsseldorf,
Grey Daturas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mr. Review,
Eddi Front,
Negative Approach,
Kenny Larkin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Lyres,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lalo Schifrin,
Supertramp,
The Offenders,
Colin Newman,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dual Sessions,
Visage,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minor Threat,
Davy DMX,
Babytalk,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Starr,
Infiniti,
Deakin,
Symarip,
the Fania All-Stars,
Los Fastidios,
Kaleidoscope,
Nick Fraelich,
Minutemen,
This Heat,
Rod Modell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dirtbombs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dark Day,
Swans,
ABBA,
Young Marble Giants,
Lungfish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Drexciya,
Y Pants,
KRS-One,
The Grass Roots,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skaos,
Bluetip,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Slackers,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.