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 Mongolia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fugazi to the electroclash 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator 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 linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chrome,
Arcadia,
Television,
The Misunderstood,
Au Pairs,
The Gories,
Dead Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quando Quango,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television Personalities,
Can,
Kool Moe Dee,
Swell Maps,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Pus,
The Real Kids,
Terry Callier,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric B and Rakim,
Franke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Bar-Kays,
Idris Muhammad,
The Neon Judgement,
Heaven 17,
The Fall,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sugar Minott,
Darondo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pussy Galore,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bill Wells,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Crash Course in Science,
Adolescents,
The Barracudas,
The Selecter,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxy Music,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nico,
Clear Light,
The Cure,
New Order,
The Velvet Underground,
Malaria!,
Pierre Henry,
Main Source,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.