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 Peru and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the grime 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb 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 linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Eric Dolphy,
The Martian,
Rakim,
Rod Modell,
Mission of Burma,
The Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pantaleimon,
The Music Machine,
Scott Walker,
The Cure,
The Doors,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Christie,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
Sound Behaviour,
Lakeside,
Al Stewart,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Count Five,
Ituana,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gong,
Mark Hollis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Shoche,
Oneida,
The Buckinghams,
Derrick Morgan,
The Techniques,
Cecil Taylor,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marmalade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Audionom,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aswad,
Flipper,
Prince Buster,
Yaz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
New Order,
Tom Boy,
June of 44,
The Golliwogs,
Reagan Youth,
Clear Light,
Television,
Ronnie Foster,
Nation of Ulysses,
Beasts of Bourbon,
John Holt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.