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 Togo and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Marc Almond 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Bootsy Collins,
Terry Callier,
New Age Steppers,
Kenny Larkin,
Underground Resistance,
Sixth Finger,
Siglo XX,
Pussy Galore,
the Bar-Kays,
Girls At Our Best!,
Niagra,
The Kinks,
The Knickerbockers,
the Association,
Babytalk,
Archie Shepp,
David Axelrod,
Johnny Clarke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
CMW,
The Golliwogs,
Cymande,
Black Sheep,
Half Japanese,
Rod Modell,
Alison Limerick,
Frankie Knuckles,
Darondo,
Audionom,
Flash Fearless,
Minny Pops,
The Birthday Party,
Joey Negro,
Junior Murvin,
Gang Green,
E-Dancer,
Chris & Cosey,
Monks,
The Human League,
Boredoms,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mr. Review,
Scan 7,
Jeff Lynne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
Schoolly D,
Inner City,
Royal Trux,
T. Rex,
The Velvet Underground,
Terrestrial Tones,
Maleditus Sound,
The Happenings,
Aural Exciters,
Infiniti,
Wings,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.