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 Ukraine and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gastr Del Sol to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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,
The Toasters,
Pylon,
The Gap Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Five Americans,
Lucky Dragons,
Q65,
Anakelly,
The Durutti Column,
Gregory Isaacs,
Byron Stingily,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fela Kuti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Audionom,
Absolute Body Control,
Stetsasonic,
Scratch Acid,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nick Fraelich,
UT,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sarah Menescal,
Mo-Dettes,
The Dirtbombs,
Erykah Badu,
James White and The Blacks,
Essential Logic,
Black Moon,
Popol Vuh,
James Chance & The Contortions,
10cc,
Kerri Chandler,
Joe Smooth,
The Saints,
Michelle Simonal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Alison Limerick,
The Smoke,
MC5,
Shuggie Otis,
Con Funk Shun,
Cal Tjader,
The American Breed,
Man Parrish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Blake Baxter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Symarip,
A Certain Ratio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Index,
Lou Reed,
Jandek,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Los Fastidios,
Monolake,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.