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 Uzbekistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 Public Enemy to the grunge 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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,
Derrick May,
R.M.O.,
the Germs,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Grass Roots,
Yusef Lateef,
Oblivians,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Supertramp,
Ornette Coleman,
ABC,
The Human League,
Ice-T,
This Heat,
the Swans,
David McCallum,
The United States of America,
Alphaville,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Donald Byrd,
Angry Samoans,
Bauhaus,
Index,
Little Man,
Delon & Dalcan,
Blancmange,
Darondo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Minnie Riperton,
The Happenings,
Sun Ra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cybotron,
Panda Bear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Association,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Fatback Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Starr,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aural Exciters,
Ten City,
Television,
The Stooges,
Pylon,
Unwound,
Todd Terry,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flash Fearless,
The Gap Band,
Can,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Symarip,
The Pretty Things,
Brothers Johnson,
The Wake,
Monolake,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.