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 Korea North and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alton Ellis to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin 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 clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Ultravox,
Rakim,
Ultimate Spinach,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Sonics,
Sparks,
Heaven 17,
Gabor Szabo,
Matthew Bourne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Sherman,
Archie Shepp,
Judy Mowatt,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
China Crisis,
Bootsy Collins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mo-Dettes,
Josef K,
Fat Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bill Near,
Kurtis Blow,
The Durutti Column,
Grandmaster Flash,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun City Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
KRS-One,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alison Limerick,
Bush Tetras,
The Cure,
Soul II Soul,
Bluetip,
Oblivians,
Dawn Penn,
Davy DMX,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eve St. Jones,
Schoolly D,
Quando Quango,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bronski Beat,
Wasted Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sixth Finger,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moss Icon,
The Doors,
The Cramps,
Cal Tjader,
Lakeside,
The Dead C,
Avey Tare,
Dorothy Ashby,
Symarip,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.