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 Cape Verde and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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,
Ice-T,
The Residents,
The Sound,
The Associates,
Panda Bear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Christie,
Basic Channel,
Skriet,
Archie Shepp,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soul II Soul,
Black Sheep,
Wally Richardson,
Sandy B,
Crispian St. Peters,
Josef K,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Hood,
Joensuu 1685,
X-Ray Spex,
Niagra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
The Sonics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bauhaus,
Parry Music,
Adolescents,
Fela Kuti,
Howard Jones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Model 500,
Icehouse,
Letta Mbulu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Almond,
Rekid,
Hasil Adkins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Bananas,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stetsasonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dave Gahan,
FM Einheit,
MDC,
T. Rex,
Symarip,
Neil Young,
Simply Red,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Slackers,
Radio Birdman,
X-102,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.