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 Gabon and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the grime 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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
The Alarm Clocks,
Liliput,
Malaria!,
Young Marble Giants,
Magazine,
Heaven 17,
Mo-Dettes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tres Demented,
Theoretical Girls,
The Happenings,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lakeside,
Darondo,
Franke,
PIL,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang of Four,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Skaos,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Charles Mingus,
Warren Ellis,
Sarah Menescal,
Duran Duran,
Donald Byrd,
Gang Starr,
D'Angelo,
the Soft Cell,
FM Einheit,
Patti Smith,
Monks,
Hoover,
Negative Approach,
Janne Schatter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ice-T,
Fat Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Boredoms,
Sällskapet,
Ronan,
Soft Machine,
Radiohead,
Joyce Sims,
The Star Department,
Jawbox,
Motorama,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Tremeloes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Glambeats Corp.,
ABC,
Visage,
Yellowson,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.