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 Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Velvet Underground to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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,
Boogie Down Productions,
Harry Pussy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Max Romeo,
Pantaleimon,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fall,
Isaac Hayes,
E-Dancer,
Yusef Lateef,
Pierre Henry,
Funkadelic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Infiniti,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
Intrusion,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mark Hollis,
Deakin,
Josef K,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Saints,
Aaron Thompson,
Porter Ricks,
Mad Mike,
Anthony Braxton,
The Detroit Cobras,
Spoonie Gee,
Can,
Dawn Penn,
X-101,
The Velvet Underground,
Subhumans,
Todd Terry,
David Bowie,
Gang of Four,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mummies,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MC5,
The Grass Roots,
Toni Rubio,
Quando Quango,
Reuben Wilson,
Minor Threat,
Model 500,
Sparks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Unrelated Segments,
Johnny Clarke,
Trumans Water,
Fela Kuti,
The Blues Magoos,
Sun City Girls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eve St. Jones,
Marc Almond,
Alphaville,
Lyres,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.