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 Peru and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tehran.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 kango's stein massive to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terry Callier,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonic Youth,
Ludus,
Tom Boy,
The Motions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nik Kershaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sex Pistols,
MC5,
Con Funk Shun,
AZ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Stooges,
The Leaves,
Brand Nubian,
Mantronix,
Roxy Music,
Stereo Dub,
Spandau Ballet,
Bobby Byrd,
Erasure,
the Soft Cell,
Bauhaus,
Lower 48,
The Sound,
The Associates,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter & Gordon,
Vladislav Delay,
Joensuu 1685,
Letta Mbulu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joe Finger,
The Alarm Clocks,
Iggy Pop,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Barracudas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gladiators,
The Selecter,
Ice-T,
Spoonie Gee,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Underground Resistance,
The Real Kids,
Byron Stingily,
John Lydon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Leonard Cohen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tears for Fears,
Schoolly D,
Blake Baxter,
PIL,
Bluetip,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.