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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Deepchord to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Intrusion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Holt,
Lower 48,
The Red Krayola,
Buzzcocks,
Scratch Acid,
Qualms,
Archie Shepp,
Tommy Roe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Khruangbin,
Terry Callier,
The Electric Prunes,
Fear,
Don Cherry,
The Misunderstood,
The Slackers,
Oneida,
Arthur Verocai,
Lalo Schifrin,
Talk Talk,
Q65,
John Lydon,
Section 25,
Jacques Brel,
Boredoms,
The Fortunes,
Fluxion,
Reuben Wilson,
The Stooges,
Deepchord,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Electric Prunes,
Half Japanese,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wally Richardson,
Peter & Gordon,
Massinfluence,
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
Janne Schatter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Human League,
Hashim,
The Skatalites,
Quando Quango,
cv313,
The Happenings,
Althea and Donna,
Nirvana,
The Walker Brothers,
The Evens,
Chrome,
Michelle Simonal,
The Martian,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.