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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 X-101 to the grime 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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echospace,
Bill Near,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Deadbeat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Davy DMX,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Litter,
Letta Mbulu,
Visage,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pierre Henry,
Electric Prunes,
The Leaves,
AZ,
Easy Going,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Josef K,
Deakin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hot Snakes,
Jeru the Damaja,
David McCallum,
Khruangbin,
Fela Kuti,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fall,
Kaleidoscope,
The Angels of Light,
Kurtis Blow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dave Gahan,
Sällskapet,
The Mojo Men,
Boz Scaggs,
Archie Shepp,
Ten City,
Charles Mingus,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rod Modell,
The Red Krayola,
Idris Muhammad,
Stetsasonic,
Fatback Band,
Sex Pistols,
Alison Limerick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Masters at Work,
Tommy Roe,
Massinfluence,
H. Thieme,
Peter and Kerry,
Babytalk,
Dorothy Ashby,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slackers,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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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.