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 Peru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the techno 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Shoche,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kenny Larkin,
Echospace,
Wire,
Don Cherry,
The Trojans,
T.S.O.L.,
Fad Gadget,
Swans,
The Smiths,
The New Christs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The American Breed,
Peter & Gordon,
Pulsallama,
Quantec,
John Coltrane,
F. McDonald,
Jeru the Damaja,
Icehouse,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Stetsasonic,
Television Personalities,
MDC,
Malaria!,
Intrusion,
Tubeway Army,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lakeside,
Rekid,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Television,
Youth Brigade,
The Residents,
Fela Kuti,
Metal Thangz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Thompson Twins,
Dark Day,
The Seeds,
Mr. Review,
the Sonics,
Von Mondo,
The Standells,
Arthur Verocai,
La Düsseldorf,
The Raincoats,
Bobby Womack,
Con Funk Shun,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Music Machine,
Kas Product,
Little Man,
The Fortunes,
Mark Hollis,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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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.