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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the grunge 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roxy Music,
Terry Callier,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Association,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Model 500,
Delta 5,
Roxette,
Alphaville,
Public Enemy,
The Raincoats,
Nas,
The Real Kids,
Jawbox,
The Fire Engines,
Brass Construction,
Kaleidoscope,
Agitation Free,
Jerry's Kids,
L. Decosne,
Joyce Sims,
ABC,
Hoover,
Kayak,
Iggy Pop,
The Offenders,
Rekid,
Ossler,
Rotary Connection,
Tomorrow,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Flag,
Aswad,
Camberwell Now,
Tim Buckley,
The Blackbyrds,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sonic Youth,
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Names,
Soft Cell,
La Düsseldorf,
Pierre Henry,
Judy Mowatt,
Shoche,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
David Axelrod,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lindisfarne,
EPMD,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jeff Mills,
The Knickerbockers,
Sarah Menescal,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.