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 Russia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 New Order to the rock 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
CMW,
Basic Channel,
Gabor Szabo,
Section 25,
Arab on Radar,
Stereo Dub,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dave Gahan,
Parry Music,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Smoke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Prince Buster,
Minutemen,
Jerry's Kids,
Moebius,
The Skatalites,
Derrick Morgan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grauzone,
The Angels of Light,
MC5,
Lalo Schifrin,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mark Hollis,
Juan Atkins,
Chrome,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Motorama,
the Germs,
Groovy Waters,
R.M.O.,
John Coltrane,
The Gories,
Angry Samoans,
Chris Corsano,
The New Christs,
Porter Ricks,
Alison Limerick,
The American Breed,
Buzzcocks,
Anakelly,
Little Man,
Scratch Acid,
Blake Baxter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Selecter,
This Heat,
Howard Jones,
L. Decosne,
The Blackbyrds,
Don Cherry,
The Star Department,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.