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 Austria and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 Surgeon to the crunk 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Massinfluence,
KRS-One,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Iggy Pop,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marine Girls,
The Kinks,
Thee Headcoats,
Pet Shop Boys,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Searchers,
The Selecter,
Roxette,
In Retrospect,
Wolf Eyes,
Derrick Morgan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Leaves,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Clear Light,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deepchord,
The Durutti Column,
Jerry's Kids,
Camouflage,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cure,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Blackbyrds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Negative Approach,
Magazine,
Dual Sessions,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slits,
The Human League,
Mark Hollis,
DJ Sneak,
Boredoms,
Crooked Eye,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arcadia,
Lyres,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chris & Cosey,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Litter,
Simply Red,
New Age Steppers,
Agent Orange,
Schoolly D,
a-ha,
Soft Cell,
Erasure,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Sonics,
Juan Atkins,
Echospace,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.