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 Morocco and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 cv313 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slave,
The Vogues,
The Buckinghams,
Zero Boys,
Ituana,
Guru Guru,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bad Manners,
Matthew Halsall,
Moss Icon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jacob Miller,
Public Enemy,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter & Gordon,
The Busters,
the Human League,
Silicon Teens,
Con Funk Shun,
Lalann,
Amon Düül II,
Mars,
The Real Kids,
Newcleus,
Altered Images,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yazoo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Boz Scaggs,
Half Japanese,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Youth Brigade,
Sun City Girls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crash Course in Science,
Minor Threat,
These Immortal Souls,
The Move,
Bauhaus,
One Last Wish,
Robert Wyatt,
Marmalade,
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jerry's Kids,
Television Personalities,
Mad Mike,
Index,
Aaron Thompson,
Aural Exciters,
Anakelly,
Harpers Bizarre,
Unrelated Segments,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.