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 Spain and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Von Mondo,
Kaleidoscope,
L. Decosne,
The Invisible,
Youth Brigade,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Country Teasers,
Model 500,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Saints,
The Toasters,
Pierre Henry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
X-101,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tubeway Army,
Neil Young,
Spandau Ballet,
Idris Muhammad,
Tres Demented,
Bill Near,
Fad Gadget,
Fear,
Procol Harum,
David McCallum,
The Gories,
Lou Reed,
Joe Smooth,
the Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fire Engines,
Crooked Eye,
Jawbox,
The Remains,
Ohio Players,
Radiohead,
Television Personalities,
Malaria!,
Marc Almond,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eve St. Jones,
Traffic Nightmare,
Essential Logic,
Patti Smith,
The Last Poets,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minutemen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
E-Dancer,
The Slits,
Rhythm & Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Fluxion,
The Misunderstood,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.