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 Syria and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
The Smiths,
Curtis Mayfield,
Donald Byrd,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jawbox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Angry Samoans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deadbeat,
Basic Channel,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Mummies,
Joey Negro,
Alice Coltrane,
Laurel Aitken,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Tremeloes,
Nas,
Leonard Cohen,
Man Eating Sloth,
Arthur Verocai,
Jeff Lynne,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Trojans,
Kerri Chandler,
Cameo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rotary Connection,
Quantec,
Gil Scott Heron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Maleditus Sound,
Man Parrish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Supertramp,
Joy Division,
The Last Poets,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Womack,
Tom Boy,
The Birthday Party,
AZ,
Von Mondo,
Crash Course in Science,
Glenn Branca,
The Knickerbockers,
Kurtis Blow,
Au Pairs,
Livin' Joy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cluster,
Warren Ellis,
The Doors,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.