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 Belize and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Alison Limerick to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Simply Red,
Andrew Hill,
The Kinks,
Nico,
Vladislav Delay,
Byron Stingily,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
UT,
PIL,
Cheater Slicks,
The Saints,
Q and Not U,
Mantronix,
OOIOO,
Eric B and Rakim,
Intrusion,
Ituana,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joensuu 1685,
Peter and Kerry,
Faraquet,
Shuggie Otis,
The Victims,
Derrick May,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Byrd,
L. Decosne,
The Offenders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Slits,
John Cale,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fugs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Country Teasers,
The Durutti Column,
The Cure,
MDC,
Tommy Roe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warsaw,
Technova,
The Grass Roots,
Glenn Branca,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonic Youth,
Half Japanese,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glambeats Corp.,
Anakelly,
Moebius,
Soft Machine,
Drexciya,
Royal Trux,
The Sonics,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.