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 Russia and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Roy Ayers to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
Heaven 17,
Connie Case,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joyce Sims,
Slick Rick,
Moebius,
Eurythmics,
Eddi Front,
Vainqueur,
Skriet,
Nas,
Buzzcocks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Q and Not U,
Faraquet,
Big Daddy Kane,
Man Eating Sloth,
LL Cool J,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dual Sessions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Byrd,
Magma,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fortunes,
Lakeside,
The Walker Brothers,
Gang of Four,
The Smiths,
Lightning Bolt,
B.T. Express,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Seeds,
Scrapy,
Dennis Brown,
The Fugs,
Theoretical Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Kerri Chandler,
Aswad,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stereo Dub,
Khruangbin,
Liliput,
Rotary Connection,
John Holt,
The Pretty Things,
KRS-One,
Shuggie Otis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sandy B,
Prince Buster,
Kevin Saunderson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Misunderstood,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.