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 Zambia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare 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 Scrapy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum 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 marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Cheater Slicks,
Tears for Fears,
Nas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Human League,
Can,
Maleditus Sound,
Howard Jones,
Masters at Work,
Swans,
Alphaville,
Lalo Schifrin,
AZ,
Junior Murvin,
Chris Corsano,
Little Man,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
Tres Demented,
Alison Limerick,
Excepter,
The Saints,
Theoretical Girls,
Darondo,
Neil Young,
ABBA,
Morten Harket,
Pole,
Main Source,
The Cramps,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agitation Free,
Ronnie Foster,
Grey Daturas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül,
Ornette Coleman,
Sixth Finger,
Echospace,
The Sound,
Monolake,
The Standells,
the Association,
The Fugs,
Kerri Chandler,
Sight & Sound,
The Fortunes,
Young Marble Giants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Halsall,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Absolute Body Control,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Inner City,
Sparks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Depeche Mode,
Ohio Players,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.