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 Uzbekistan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Fela Kuti 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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Womack,
Rites of Spring,
Fatback Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Donny Hathaway,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camouflage,
David McCallum,
Hoover,
Prince Buster,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Soft Machine,
Connie Case,
Ituana,
DJ Style,
Alphaville,
Circle Jerks,
Vainqueur,
Alton Ellis,
Aural Exciters,
FM Einheit,
Althea and Donna,
Cameo,
The Saints,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sonic Youth,
Tom Boy,
Wasted Youth,
The Skatalites,
The Slackers,
Maleditus Sound,
Erasure,
The Five Americans,
Sam Rivers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Silicon Teens,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soul II Soul,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minnie Riperton,
Man Parrish,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nirvana,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Motions,
Hardrive,
Clear Light,
Lyres,
Amazonics,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Durutti Column,
OOIOO,
Todd Terry,
Blossom Toes,
Rotary Connection,
Eric Copeland,
The Misunderstood,
Erykah Badu,
MDC,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.