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 Malaysia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Susan Cadogan to the grime 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba 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 oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
The Cure,
Lightning Bolt,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Traffic Nightmare,
Basic Channel,
Ken Boothe,
Skaos,
Sun Ra,
Quantec,
Mary Jane Girls,
OOIOO,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Blues Magoos,
Main Source,
The Durutti Column,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Outsiders,
Soul II Soul,
Judy Mowatt,
Alphaville,
James White and The Blacks,
X-102,
Robert Görl,
Youth Brigade,
Los Fastidios,
Lyres,
Soft Machine,
Newcleus,
Rosa Yemen,
Kenny Larkin,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Electric Prunes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Isaac Hayes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
UT,
MDC,
LL Cool J,
The Fall,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Johnny Clarke,
The Smoke,
Procol Harum,
Eric Copeland,
Ituana,
Albert Ayler,
The Gun Club,
cv313,
Brick,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Michelle Simonal,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kaleidoscope,
Popol Vuh,
Lindisfarne,
K-Klass,
Todd Terry,
Eurythmics,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.