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 Romania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cluster to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes 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 sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Moss Icon,
Khruangbin,
Public Enemy,
Make Up,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bronski Beat,
Susan Cadogan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stiv Bators,
Arab on Radar,
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Altered Images,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker,
Main Source,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joensuu 1685,
The Busters,
Magma,
Stereo Dub,
Organ,
Godley & Creme,
Morten Harket,
Juan Atkins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultravox,
John Cale,
Fear,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun City Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lower 48,
Minor Threat,
Quantec,
The Happenings,
The Neon Judgement,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Isaac Hayes,
Rapeman,
Scion,
Oneida,
Q and Not U,
Section 25,
The Evens,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Scrapy,
Basic Channel,
John Coltrane,
Lindisfarne,
Mad Mike,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Idris Muhammad,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Hood,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kaleidoscope,
Hot Snakes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.