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 Switzerland and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron 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 ABBA to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Nik Kershaw,
Alison Limerick,
Gong,
Chris Corsano,
The Move,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jerry's Kids,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ponytail,
Quando Quango,
Agitation Free,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Derrick May,
Ossler,
Joe Smooth,
MDC,
Jandek,
Piero Umiliani,
Pantytec,
Symarip,
Intrusion,
Bronski Beat,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oneida,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Soft Cell,
Sonic Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-101,
Spoonie Gee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Junior Murvin,
Dead Boys,
David McCallum,
Gregory Isaacs,
Altered Images,
The Neon Judgement,
Cymande,
Eve St. Jones,
Tim Buckley,
The Evens,
Black Sheep,
Alton Ellis,
Fat Boys,
DNA,
Tommy Roe,
T.S.O.L.,
Wally Richardson,
Kurtis Blow,
Sex Pistols,
Cal Tjader,
The Litter,
Mad Mike,
Schoolly D,
Wire,
Little Man,
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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.
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.