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 Norway and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Ice-T to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Interpol,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Radiohead,
The Five Americans,
cv313,
Sight & Sound,
B.T. Express,
Warren Ellis,
Rotary Connection,
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel,
The Vogues,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Thompson Twins,
The Smiths,
Pussy Galore,
Mo-Dettes,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Cure,
Television,
This Heat,
Bootsy Collins,
Barrington Levy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quadrant,
The Evens,
Tears for Fears,
The Walker Brothers,
Fatback Band,
Soul II Soul,
The Searchers,
Negative Approach,
Tim Buckley,
The Raincoats,
The Stooges,
Fad Gadget,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Finger,
Amazonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lucky Dragons,
Ronan,
Kerrie Biddell,
48th St. Collective,
The Smoke,
Anthony Braxton,
Grey Daturas,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
Minor Threat,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Remains,
Slick Rick,
Black Sheep,
Lakeside,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.