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 Sweden and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Sällskapet to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 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 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Tim Buckley,
Warren Ellis,
Aaron Thompson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Amazonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New Age Steppers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eric Dolphy,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
Freddie Wadling,
Delta 5,
Junior Murvin,
Panda Bear,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Martian,
Roxette,
Radio Birdman,
Das Ding,
Youth Brigade,
Black Moon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deepchord,
Sarah Menescal,
The New Christs,
OOIOO,
Soft Machine,
Glenn Branca,
PIL,
Scientists,
Andrew Hill,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arthur Verocai,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The United States of America,
Brass Construction,
Darondo,
The Zeros,
Soul Sonic Force,
Groovy Waters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Absolute Body Control,
The Walker Brothers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Faraquet,
Gang Gang Dance,
K-Klass,
Gabor Szabo,
Monolake,
Scion,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minor Threat,
Ronan,
AZ,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.