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 India and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Doors to the crunk 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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,
Maurizio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
Khruangbin,
Eli Mardock,
Deepchord,
Gang Green,
The Leaves,
Sällskapet,
Blake Baxter,
The Smoke,
Inner City,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Human League,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fad Gadget,
Visage,
B.T. Express,
Marine Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Easy Going,
Blancmange,
Marc Almond,
The United States of America,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Steve Hackett,
Bobby Sherman,
Erasure,
Ultra Naté,
Junior Murvin,
The J.B.'s,
Circle Jerks,
Schoolly D,
Anakelly,
Tom Boy,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mojo Men,
Sun City Girls,
Infiniti,
Animal Collective,
AZ,
Gong,
Groovy Waters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Five Americans,
Ronan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neu!,
Lakeside,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Cosmic Jokers,
David McCallum,
Tubeway Army,
Model 500,
Procol Harum,
Simply Red,
Radio Birdman,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.