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 Ghana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the crunk 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb 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 arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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,
Depeche Mode,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eve St. Jones,
John Cale,
Sex Pistols,
Blossom Toes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moody Blues,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marshall Jefferson,
Livin' Joy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Pere Ubu,
Outsiders,
Von Mondo,
Amazonics,
Jeff Lynne,
FM Einheit,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boredoms,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Harmonia,
Newcleus,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Slits,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mission of Burma,
Rites of Spring,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Slackers,
Avey Tare,
Buzzcocks,
Kurtis Blow,
F. McDonald,
Joensuu 1685,
Crispian St. Peters,
K-Klass,
10cc,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Martian,
John Foxx,
PIL,
Cabaret Voltaire,
These Immortal Souls,
Mark Hollis,
Quando Quango,
The Associates,
UT,
Royal Trux,
Matthew Halsall,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.