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 Togo and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mark Hollis to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet 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 synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Minor Threat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Subhumans,
the Normal,
Underground Resistance,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Shoche,
Fela Kuti,
Country Teasers,
Dennis Brown,
Yellowson,
The Velvet Underground,
Quadrant,
Pantaleimon,
Susan Cadogan,
D'Angelo,
Zero Boys,
Dual Sessions,
Vainqueur,
Symarip,
The Wake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Leaves,
Sandy B,
Maurizio,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Smog,
Reuben Wilson,
Heaven 17,
The Selecter,
Mark Hollis,
The Index,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
MDC,
Brand Nubian,
Harpers Bizarre,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Halsall,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang of Four,
Radiopuhelimet,
Iggy Pop,
Young Marble Giants,
Negative Approach,
David Axelrod,
Delta 5,
The Buckinghams,
Freddie Wadling,
Von Mondo,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.