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 Maldives and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Theoretical Girls 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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Men They Couldn't Hang record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
The Toasters,
Derrick Morgan,
Harry Pussy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Lydon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Yazoo,
Todd Terry,
the Germs,
Crash Course in Science,
Sister Nancy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Neu!,
Can,
Excepter,
Spandau Ballet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gong,
Con Funk Shun,
MC5,
Lakeside,
X-102,
Lalann,
Simply Red,
Erasure,
ABC,
The Buckinghams,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joy Division,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Bar-Kays,
Judy Mowatt,
The Detroit Cobras,
Schoolly D,
Byron Stingily,
Agitation Free,
Terry Callier,
Junior Murvin,
The Motions,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Todd Rundgren,
Tubeway Army,
One Last Wish,
Sonny Sharrock,
Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Magazine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Howard Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Icehouse,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crime,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Barracudas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Carl Craig,
Parry Music,
The Wake,
The Monochrome Set,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.