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 Papua New Guinea and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Deadbeat to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe 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 guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lakeside,
Quadrant,
Tears for Fears,
The Skatalites,
Pierre Henry,
Iggy Pop,
Yazoo,
Zero Boys,
Supertramp,
Radiohead,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Offenders,
JFA,
David McCallum,
Spoonie Gee,
Slave,
Talk Talk,
Ronan,
Isaac Hayes,
Blossom Toes,
Gang Green,
Erasure,
Q and Not U,
Marine Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Saints,
Anthony Braxton,
Inner City,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Buckinghams,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ice-T,
cv313,
Nils Olav,
Grandmaster Flash,
Grey Daturas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Don Cherry,
Toni Rubio,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Divine Comedy,
Gang Starr,
Flash Fearless,
The Monochrome Set,
Janne Schatter,
Wally Richardson,
Ten City,
New Order,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Girls At Our Best!,
The Music Machine,
Depeche Mode,
Fatback Band,
Dawn Penn,
Fluxion,
The Electric Prunes,
Pylon,
Niagra,
Leonard Cohen,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.