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 Spain and from New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Tomorrow to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Procol Harum,
Pole,
Icehouse,
Urselle,
Junior Murvin,
Scott Walker,
The Dirtbombs,
Donald Byrd,
The Selecter,
Mr. Review,
D'Angelo,
Whodini,
Laurel Aitken,
Brick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The United States of America,
Camouflage,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Sonics,
Pantaleimon,
Ornette Coleman,
Bootsy Collins,
A Certain Ratio,
Rotary Connection,
the Human League,
Kayak,
Letta Mbulu,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Real Kids,
K-Klass,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Excepter,
Matthew Bourne,
Barrington Levy,
Ice-T,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rosa Yemen,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Trojans,
The American Breed,
One Last Wish,
Visage,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pagans,
The Remains,
Groovy Waters,
The Seeds,
Con Funk Shun,
Suicide,
the Sonics,
Eric Copeland,
Crispy Ambulance,
Technova,
Monks,
Roxette,
Sex Pistols,
X-Ray Spex,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.