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 Belarus and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 Echospace to the rap 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin 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 snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Surgeon,
Leonard Cohen,
The Victims,
Roy Ayers,
Sound Behaviour,
Main Source,
The Smiths,
The Stooges,
The Count Five,
The Remains,
Crash Course in Science,
Nirvana,
Camouflage,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Holt,
Hashim,
Duran Duran,
Bobby Womack,
Michelle Simonal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cybotron,
Dark Day,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yusef Lateef,
Nick Fraelich,
Ohio Players,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
D'Angelo,
Radio Birdman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vladislav Delay,
Brand Nubian,
Excepter,
The Music Machine,
Drexciya,
Ultravox,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eurythmics,
Avey Tare,
The Sound,
Mandrill,
Y Pants,
10cc,
Marc Almond,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Make Up,
Derrick May,
Roger Hodgson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Johnny Clarke,
Heaven 17,
Half Japanese,
Buzzcocks,
In Retrospect,
Rufus Thomas,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fugs,
Sister Nancy,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.