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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joey Negro,
Lungfish,
Idris Muhammad,
Connie Case,
Mandrill,
Eden Ahbez,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Sheep,
Black Flag,
Fela Kuti,
Pantaleimon,
The Fire Engines,
X-Ray Spex,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lyres,
Brothers Johnson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fall,
Rosa Yemen,
Sonic Youth,
Pantytec,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thee Headcoats,
L. Decosne,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sound,
The Gap Band,
DJ Style,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Das Ding,
Organ,
The Mummies,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anakelly,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cymande,
The Flesh Eaters,
Severed Heads,
Echospace,
AZ,
Pierre Henry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gladiators,
the Swans,
Sällskapet,
David Bowie,
The J.B.'s,
Ralphi Rosario,
Little Man,
Kurtis Blow,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ituana,
Jawbox,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.