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 El Salvador and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Zero Boys to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Quadrant,
Urselle,
Model 500,
Peter & Gordon,
Sight & Sound,
Leonard Cohen,
Agent Orange,
T. Rex,
The Gladiators,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Visage,
B.T. Express,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Throbbing Gristle,
Severed Heads,
The Associates,
Nas,
PIL,
One Last Wish,
The Zeros,
Bobby Sherman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
A Certain Ratio,
Brick,
Marine Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Inner City,
Sixth Finger,
The Mojo Men,
Soft Cell,
Depeche Mode,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yusef Lateef,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Byrd,
L. Decosne,
Matthew Bourne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Popol Vuh,
Eli Mardock,
Fela Kuti,
Marvin Gaye,
Joyce Sims,
Oneida,
Television,
Animal Collective,
Barry Ungar,
Main Source,
Ultravox,
Mad Mike,
the Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television Personalities,
AZ,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kas Product,
Lower 48,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.