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 Czech Republic and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 One Last Wish to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Slits,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Hill,
The Cramps,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erykah Badu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kevin Saunderson,
Youth Brigade,
Jesper Dahlback,
Little Man,
Quando Quango,
T. Rex,
Jerry's Kids,
Pantytec,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang of Four,
Michelle Simonal,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Donald Byrd,
Alice Coltrane,
Nik Kershaw,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Toasters,
Pantaleimon,
B.T. Express,
Niagra,
The Slits,
The Pretty Things,
Khruangbin,
Aaron Thompson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Carl Craig,
Black Pus,
Anakelly,
Pulsallama,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Sheep,
Warsaw,
The Cowsills,
Rod Modell,
Crash Course in Science,
Unwound,
Trumans Water,
Yellowson,
Japan,
Bootsy Collins,
K-Klass,
Zero Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Fugazi,
Simply Red,
Mo-Dettes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pere Ubu,
The Trojans,
The American Breed,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.