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 Sri Lanka and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Index to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ronan,
Mars,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
Blancmange,
Niagra,
The Residents,
KRS-One,
The Raincoats,
Livin' Joy,
Supertramp,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Seeds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Smog,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonic Youth,
Rufus Thomas,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cramps,
Electric Prunes,
Ornette Coleman,
Chris Corsano,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fat Boys,
The Fall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
EPMD,
Graham Central Station,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donald Byrd,
Brand Nubian,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boz Scaggs,
D'Angelo,
The Names,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Television Personalities,
The Remains,
Marc Almond,
Fugazi,
PIL,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sister Nancy,
The Slits,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Searchers,
Depeche Mode,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gun Club,
Magma,
a-ha,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.