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 Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ 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 spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Newcleus,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Goldenarms,
K-Klass,
Buzzcocks,
Alice Coltrane,
Royal Trux,
Marmalade,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Dead C,
Symarip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Duran Duran,
Gil Scott Heron,
Reagan Youth,
48th St. Collective,
June Days,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gabor Szabo,
The Birthday Party,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Red Krayola,
Sparks,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magazine,
Deakin,
Blossom Toes,
Amazonics,
New Age Steppers,
The Mojo Men,
Jandek,
Thompson Twins,
The Fuzztones,
Erykah Badu,
The Black Dice,
The Star Department,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camberwell Now,
Tom Boy,
Patti Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
Khruangbin,
Q and Not U,
Amon Düül II,
Bang On A Can,
Hardrive,
Chrome,
Grandmaster Flash,
CMW,
Ultra Naté,
Wolf Eyes,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.