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 Iran and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Q65 to the disco 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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Man Eating Sloth,
Laurel Aitken,
Public Enemy,
B.T. Express,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mission of Burma,
the Bar-Kays,
Kas Product,
Rakim,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mr. Review,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Little Man,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Brick,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sun Ra,
Surgeon,
the Swans,
Vladislav Delay,
Nas,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker,
Fatback Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Cymande,
Ronan,
Sparks,
Tubeway Army,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eden Ahbez,
Scion,
Radiopuhelimet,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fugs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Animal Collective,
Dead Boys,
48th St. Collective,
Oblivians,
John Foxx,
The Evens,
AZ,
Chris Corsano,
Goldenarms,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Sherman,
Parry Music,
The Black Dice,
Duran Duran,
Erykah Badu,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Green,
Suburban Knight,
Sandy B,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.