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 Monaco and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Associates,
X-Ray Spex,
Roger Hodgson,
Kevin Saunderson,
New Order,
Visage,
Cluster,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Donald Byrd,
Lindisfarne,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lakeside,
Aural Exciters,
Black Pus,
Jandek,
The Grass Roots,
Bobby Byrd,
the Slits,
Morten Harket,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Style,
Skriet,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Sherman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
PIL,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lucky Dragons,
The Searchers,
Black Moon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Los Fastidios,
Tubeway Army,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Fania All-Stars,
Au Pairs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Pop Group,
Surgeon,
The Smiths,
Bauhaus,
Jeru the Damaja,
These Immortal Souls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hasil Adkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kayak,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Icehouse,
Urselle,
Suicide,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bill Near,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-101,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.