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 South Sudan and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Monolake to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mars,
Bad Manners,
Bronski Beat,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Sherman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eric Dolphy,
Sight & Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Lungfish,
L. Decosne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Q and Not U,
Khruangbin,
Tubeway Army,
Ohio Players,
Bootsy Collins,
Rakim,
Darondo,
Barrington Levy,
Procol Harum,
Nico,
Prince Buster,
Jeff Mills,
The New Christs,
One Last Wish,
Los Fastidios,
Arab on Radar,
the Normal,
Blake Baxter,
Lucky Dragons,
Alice Coltrane,
Joe Smooth,
Whodini,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
H. Thieme,
Camberwell Now,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Skriet,
Smog,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Count Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Althea and Donna,
The Cramps,
Goldenarms,
the Bar-Kays,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nirvana,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scan 7,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ituana,
Steve Hackett,
Technova,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.