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 Comoros and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Juan Atkins to the electroclash 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba 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 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gun Club,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cure,
Au Pairs,
Los Fastidios,
The Young Rascals,
Wasted Youth,
Yaz,
The Mojo Men,
Monks,
Franke,
June of 44,
Arcadia,
Minnie Riperton,
The Dead C,
The Litter,
Aloha Tigers,
Maleditus Sound,
Anakelly,
The Trojans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Motions,
Mark Hollis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Vladislav Delay,
Procol Harum,
Minor Threat,
Lungfish,
Crime,
Unrelated Segments,
Amon Düül,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Icehouse,
Pylon,
The Durutti Column,
Camouflage,
The Fortunes,
Flash Fearless,
John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Archie Shepp,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Curtis Mayfield,
Max Romeo,
Minutemen,
The Evens,
Oneida,
Black Pus,
Peter & Gordon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deepchord,
Robert Wyatt,
Judy Mowatt,
Buzzcocks,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.