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 Chile and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rock 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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,
Quantec,
Connie Case,
Sällskapet,
Mo-Dettes,
Delta 5,
Aloha Tigers,
Erasure,
The Standells,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
La Düsseldorf,
H. Thieme,
Josef K,
Easy Going,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Hoover,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed,
World's Most,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Graham Central Station,
The Golliwogs,
Colin Newman,
Yazoo,
Liliput,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Laurel Aitken,
Little Man,
Janne Schatter,
Judy Mowatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Roxette,
Heaven 17,
Crispian St. Peters,
Procol Harum,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Essential Logic,
Radio Birdman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Donny Hathaway,
Circle Jerks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Severed Heads,
The Walker Brothers,
Donald Byrd,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
R.M.O.,
John Foxx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mars,
a-ha,
David Axelrod,
Rod Modell,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.