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 Guatemala and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ 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 The Star Department to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a rhodes 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 sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Ohio Players,
Bluetip,
Mars,
Fatback Band,
Outsiders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Con Funk Shun,
Magma,
La Düsseldorf,
Iggy Pop,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fluxion,
Anthony Braxton,
Harry Pussy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gong,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bad Manners,
MC5,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric Copeland,
Dark Day,
Pantaleimon,
Leonard Cohen,
Qualms,
Janne Schatter,
The Cowsills,
Wings,
The Leaves,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Young Marble Giants,
Alice Coltrane,
Isaac Hayes,
David McCallum,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Interpol,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
the Normal,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Prince Buster,
Electric Prunes,
Echospace,
The Techniques,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Little Man,
MDC,
Quantec,
Ultra Naté,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Unrelated Segments,
Fad Gadget,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.