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 Eritrea and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Surgeon to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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,
Susan Cadogan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cameo,
The Dead C,
Eddi Front,
Aloha Tigers,
Arcadia,
Matthew Halsall,
Pere Ubu,
D'Angelo,
OOIOO,
Todd Terry,
Ken Boothe,
the Association,
Agitation Free,
Aaron Thompson,
Nico,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Banda Bassotti,
June of 44,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Country Teasers,
The United States of America,
The Gladiators,
Black Bananas,
Sugar Minott,
Freddie Wadling,
Television Personalities,
Sonny Sharrock,
Morten Harket,
DJ Sneak,
E-Dancer,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yellowson,
Idris Muhammad,
T.S.O.L.,
Essential Logic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Sonics,
Eric Copeland,
Sonic Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gang of Four,
Kenny Larkin,
Donny Hathaway,
Kas Product,
Lalann,
Terrestrial Tones,
LL Cool J,
The Walker Brothers,
Glenn Branca,
Metal Thangz,
The Busters,
Cluster,
Tim Buckley,
Oneida,
Rapeman,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.