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 El Salvador and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Isaac Hayes 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
Arcadia,
The Sonics,
Surgeon,
Nik Kershaw,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
In Retrospect,
The Associates,
Todd Rundgren,
Thompson Twins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
The Slits,
Japan,
Spandau Ballet,
The Dead C,
Public Enemy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rekid,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blossom Toes,
ABBA,
Joyce Sims,
Lakeside,
Sexual Harrassment,
Unwound,
Eric Dolphy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Arab on Radar,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Susan Cadogan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dave Gahan,
Tomorrow,
Desert Stars,
Gong,
Lou Christie,
The Buckinghams,
Can,
Sound Behaviour,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Moleskins,
Jacques Brel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lightning Bolt,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suicide,
Make Up,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Con Funk Shun,
Silicon Teens,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Shadows of Knight,
Althea and Donna,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Flesh Eaters,
Metal Thangz,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.