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 Haiti and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 DJ Sneak to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yellowson,
Letta Mbulu,
Bauhaus,
Harmonia,
Peter and Kerry,
The Kinks,
Harry Pussy,
David Axelrod,
Man Parrish,
Josef K,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Zero Boys,
The Divine Comedy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joe Smooth,
Fluxion,
Moby Grape,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warsaw,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cameo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kenny Larkin,
OOIOO,
Little Man,
Bob Dylan,
Tom Boy,
Rites of Spring,
MC5,
T. Rex,
the Sonics,
Tears for Fears,
Isaac Hayes,
Marshall Jefferson,
H. Thieme,
Cybotron,
Faust,
Absolute Body Control,
EPMD,
Amazonics,
DJ Style,
Michelle Simonal,
Anakelly,
Bill Near,
Lightning Bolt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra,
Derrick Morgan,
Popol Vuh,
Jeff Lynne,
New Age Steppers,
Loose Ends,
Gil Scott Heron,
X-101,
Ituana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Malaria!,
The Trojans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.