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 Finland and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Fluxion to the rap 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron 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 rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Pere Ubu,
Dual Sessions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
David Bowie,
Masters at Work,
Little Man,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lower 48,
Isaac Hayes,
Yaz,
The Martian,
Kurtis Blow,
Michelle Simonal,
Visage,
AZ,
Neil Young,
Dark Day,
Porter Ricks,
Hoover,
Amazonics,
Interpol,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tomorrow,
Cecil Taylor,
The Residents,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Sandy B,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Chris Corsano,
Bill Near,
The Black Dice,
The Associates,
Cal Tjader,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Lightning Bolt,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Toasters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tommy Roe,
Pole,
Arthur Verocai,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Green,
the Swans,
Prince Buster,
K-Klass,
Zapp,
Minnie Riperton,
Moss Icon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soft Machine,
Chris & Cosey,
David McCallum,
The Busters,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.