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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Radio Birdman to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Electric Prunes,
EPMD,
Camouflage,
Inner City,
Jandek,
Zero Boys,
Anthony Braxton,
Agitation Free,
Q65,
Avey Tare,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aswad,
Angry Samoans,
Soft Cell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nirvana,
Guru Guru,
Icehouse,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marine Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Erasure,
Nik Kershaw,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soft Machine,
Von Mondo,
Archie Shepp,
Make Up,
The Vogues,
Mark Hollis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rakim,
Model 500,
Rites of Spring,
Bad Manners,
The Happenings,
The Monochrome Set,
Al Stewart,
Maurizio,
Funky Four + One,
Andrew Hill,
Shuggie Otis,
Television,
Wasted Youth,
Black Sheep,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crash Course in Science,
Clear Light,
Thee Headcoats,
Sparks,
David Bowie,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.