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 Mexico and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bizarre Inc. to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pop Group,
Marmalade,
The Modern Lovers,
Stetsasonic,
Unrelated Segments,
Jacques Brel,
Dawn Penn,
The Leaves,
A Certain Ratio,
Franke,
The Seeds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Negative Approach,
Isaac Hayes,
Pere Ubu,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Maleditus Sound,
X-101,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radio Birdman,
The Standells,
Lyres,
Inner City,
Byron Stingily,
Bluetip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Index,
Aswad,
Sonic Youth,
Buzzcocks,
The Gap Band,
Supertramp,
Marcia Griffiths,
ABC,
Skarface,
Magazine,
Jandek,
D'Angelo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pharoah Sanders,
One Last Wish,
Robert Görl,
Dark Day,
Kas Product,
The Dave Clark Five,
Spandau Ballet,
Fugazi,
cv313,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Index,
Pierre Henry,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Tremeloes,
The Gories,
Susan Cadogan,
Ronnie Foster,
Barbara Tucker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.