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 Iraq and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cal Tjader to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar 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 chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Robert Görl,
Charles Mingus,
Half Japanese,
Ken Boothe,
The Neon Judgement,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Byron Stingily,
Skaos,
Japan,
Ten City,
Public Enemy,
Cymande,
Camouflage,
Roy Ayers,
The American Breed,
The Victims,
Basic Channel,
Henry Cow,
The Dave Clark Five,
Minny Pops,
John Holt,
Kevin Saunderson,
Prince Buster,
OOIOO,
UT,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fortunes,
The Fire Engines,
The Happenings,
Desert Stars,
Chris Corsano,
The Smoke,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
Gichy Dan,
Donald Byrd,
D'Angelo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Idris Muhammad,
The Detroit Cobras,
Masters at Work,
PIL,
The Velvet Underground,
Susan Cadogan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Negative Approach,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
X-102,
This Heat,
Outsiders,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
La Düsseldorf,
Roger Hodgson,
Model 500,
Tears for Fears,
Yusef Lateef,
Tubeway Army,
Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy.
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.