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 Algeria and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Subhumans to the funk 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Index,
Barclay James Harvest,
New York Dolls,
Man Parrish,
Max Romeo,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiohead,
E-Dancer,
Smog,
Bill Wells,
Brick,
The Litter,
Slick Rick,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Newcleus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Fraelich,
Bluetip,
Brand Nubian,
Infiniti,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Happenings,
Guru Guru,
Lalann,
Iggy Pop,
PIL,
Gang of Four,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Shuggie Otis,
Mad Mike,
AZ,
The Skatalites,
L. Decosne,
The Toasters,
The Raincoats,
June of 44,
Jawbox,
DNA,
Qualms,
Fela Kuti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
JFA,
the Bar-Kays,
Altered Images,
The Velvet Underground,
Lower 48,
The Tremeloes,
Joe Smooth,
the Association,
Rod Modell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Glenn Branca,
Crash Course in Science,
Dead Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sly & The Family Stone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Monochrome Set,
The Grass Roots,
Talk Talk,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.