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 Mexico and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Anthony Braxton to the crunk 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord 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 snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
Model 500,
Monks,
Buzzcocks,
The Skatalites,
Hashim,
Morten Harket,
Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
World's Most,
Yellowson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Lydon,
Gabor Szabo,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fuzztones,
Lou Reed,
Grandmaster Flash,
Japan,
Stetsasonic,
The Selecter,
Lucky Dragons,
the Bar-Kays,
Mantronix,
Rosa Yemen,
Pet Shop Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Bronski Beat,
Niagra,
Bang On A Can,
The Busters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hardrive,
Idris Muhammad,
Thee Headcoats,
Wings,
Rotary Connection,
Graham Central Station,
Tim Buckley,
The Young Rascals,
Glenn Branca,
Bad Manners,
China Crisis,
Nas,
Ten City,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pussy Galore,
Adolescents,
Icehouse,
The Gun Club,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moss Icon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
kango's stein massive,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Chris Corsano,
Metal Thangz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.