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 Belarus and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lille.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Echospace 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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,
Hardrive,
Bobby Womack,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Qualms,
The Real Kids,
The Zeros,
The Moody Blues,
The Slits,
Unrelated Segments,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Youth Brigade,
In Retrospect,
Frankie Knuckles,
Erasure,
The Sound,
The Fire Engines,
The Move,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Section 25,
Saccharine Trust,
Desert Stars,
Gabor Szabo,
Tubeway Army,
Roger Hodgson,
Sister Nancy,
The Five Americans,
Half Japanese,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hasil Adkins,
Stereo Dub,
Marine Girls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Soft Cell,
Ken Boothe,
Crash Course in Science,
Rhythm & Sound,
Charles Mingus,
Pierre Henry,
Eddi Front,
Freddie Wadling,
Ohio Players,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oblivians,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
Sight & Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Last Poets,
The Gladiators,
The Names,
Delta 5,
Ronan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dennis Brown,
A Certain Ratio,
Lower 48,
Mantronix,
ABC,
Brick,
Ultra Naté,
World's Most,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.