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 Panama and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lakeside to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yazoo,
Bill Near,
the Association,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Durutti Column,
cv313,
The Red Krayola,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick May,
Suburban Knight,
The Cramps,
Radio Birdman,
The Fugs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Bar-Kays,
John Foxx,
James White and The Blacks,
Rufus Thomas,
Josef K,
The Standells,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scrapy,
MC5,
Aswad,
Lightning Bolt,
The Grass Roots,
Urselle,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Swans,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Agitation Free,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moby Grape,
The Litter,
The Modern Lovers,
Joyce Sims,
Soulsonic Force,
Sonny Sharrock,
Youth Brigade,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crash Course in Science,
The Vogues,
Idris Muhammad,
Swell Maps,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lower 48,
Jacques Brel,
Gichy Dan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kenny Larkin,
Schoolly D,
Letta Mbulu,
Fatback Band,
Darondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
a-ha,
Adolescents,
Lalo Schifrin,
Smog,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.