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 Tunisia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Donny Hathaway to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
The Invisible,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Loose Ends,
Jandek,
Marmalade,
Gerry Rafferty,
Adolescents,
Rod Modell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pagans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Judy Mowatt,
Roger Hodgson,
Yazoo,
Eden Ahbez,
EPMD,
The Music Machine,
Q and Not U,
Minutemen,
Ultimate Spinach,
Skarface,
LL Cool J,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Style,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marc Almond,
Radiopuhelimet,
Boredoms,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeff Lynne,
The New Christs,
Jawbox,
the Association,
Bill Wells,
Flash Fearless,
Fat Boys,
Wolf Eyes,
Main Source,
Lakeside,
Dark Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Flag,
MDC,
In Retrospect,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Idris Muhammad,
Aural Exciters,
The Monochrome Set,
Brick,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ultravox,
Sandy B,
Rapeman,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ronnie Foster,
U.S. Maple,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.