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 Bangladesh and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the rap 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stereo Dub,
Groovy Waters,
Pantytec,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Das Ding,
Whodini,
Guru Guru,
The Golliwogs,
Thompson Twins,
Index,
Tears for Fears,
Delta 5,
Lucky Dragons,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jimmy McGriff,
Babytalk,
Harmonia,
Tom Boy,
The Remains,
Tim Buckley,
Roxy Music,
Judy Mowatt,
Liliput,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Suburban Knight,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tommy Roe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Zeros,
Inner City,
Scrapy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Busters,
Ludus,
Hasil Adkins,
The Motions,
The Saints,
Davy DMX,
cv313,
The Invisible,
the Soft Cell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Q and Not U,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare,
Ultimate Spinach,
Minny Pops,
Drive Like Jehu,
Chris Corsano,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Robert Görl,
Quantec,
Mary Jane Girls,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.