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 Brazil and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Leonard Cohen to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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,
Wolf Eyes,
F. McDonald,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Standells,
Simply Red,
Agent Orange,
Joe Smooth,
Pylon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jeff Mills,
Avey Tare,
Outsiders,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marvin Gaye,
Minutemen,
ABBA,
Smog,
Dennis Brown,
Thompson Twins,
Pantaleimon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sugar Minott,
Sandy B,
Nation of Ulysses,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Shoche,
the Soft Cell,
Maleditus Sound,
Morten Harket,
One Last Wish,
Altered Images,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quando Quango,
John Cale,
Dead Boys,
The Fortunes,
Josef K,
Qualms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Star Department,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Knickerbockers,
China Crisis,
Aural Exciters,
L. Decosne,
Anthony Braxton,
The Evens,
Marc Almond,
Freddie Wadling,
Danielle Patucci,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
R.M.O.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.