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 Suriname and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Stereo Dub to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe 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 sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Dual Sessions,
Pussy Galore,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
The Moleskins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
World's Most,
Sugar Minott,
Joe Finger,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
JFA,
Bad Manners,
Mr. Review,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Blackbyrds,
Ten City,
Sixth Finger,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Görl,
Guru Guru,
Todd Terry,
Robert Wyatt,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ultimate Spinach,
Section 25,
Urselle,
Little Man,
Newcleus,
The Busters,
Black Sheep,
Blossom Toes,
10cc,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rufus Thomas,
Andrew Hill,
Todd Rundgren,
Hardrive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The J.B.'s,
Zero Boys,
Magazine,
Audionom,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cheater Slicks,
Nik Kershaw,
Dead Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Oblivians,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Maleditus Sound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Delta 5,
The Grass Roots,
Wire,
Wings,
Animal Collective,
The Star Department,
Amon Düül,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.