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 Vietnam and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba 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 Roxette to the dance 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Section 25,
Bootsy Collins,
Pole,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Negative Approach,
Chrome,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Toasters,
Isaac Hayes,
Oblivians,
Colin Newman,
Ludus,
Kerrie Biddell,
AZ,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Make Up,
Whodini,
Laurel Aitken,
the Fania All-Stars,
Donald Byrd,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Television Personalities,
Can,
Pere Ubu,
Janne Schatter,
Nas,
Malaria!,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
The Raincoats,
Joe Finger,
Altered Images,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Moleskins,
Derrick Morgan,
Drexciya,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Mojo Men,
David Bowie,
kango's stein massive,
The Electric Prunes,
CMW,
Kas Product,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Normal,
Wolf Eyes,
Index,
R.M.O.,
Fugazi,
Lungfish,
The Standells,
Panda Bear,
The Durutti Column,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Danielle Patucci,
Sarah Menescal,
Fad Gadget,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.