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 New Zealand and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Wings to the disco 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar 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 chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
Jimmy McGriff,
F. McDonald,
Traffic Nightmare,
Amon Düül,
Royal Trux,
Blancmange,
Ultra Naté,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Joe Finger,
The Gun Club,
Aswad,
Donny Hathaway,
Clear Light,
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funkadelic,
Supertramp,
Pharoah Sanders,
DNA,
Animal Collective,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joe Smooth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Groovy Waters,
Suicide,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fortunes,
Banda Bassotti,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ituana,
Agitation Free,
The Smoke,
The Associates,
Boredoms,
Skaos,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sixth Finger,
The Human League,
Brand Nubian,
Technova,
The Martian,
Angry Samoans,
The Modern Lovers,
Mars,
The Fire Engines,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faraquet,
Outsiders,
Ronan,
Urselle,
Drive Like Jehu,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.