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 Rwanda and from New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Gerry Rafferty to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Invisible,
Intrusion,
The Zeros,
Theoretical Girls,
Traffic Nightmare,
Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sonic Youth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Josef K,
Slave,
Altered Images,
10cc,
Eric Dolphy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Public Enemy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monks,
The Walker Brothers,
MDC,
Prince Buster,
Skriet,
Porter Ricks,
The Offenders,
Gang Starr,
Bill Near,
The Buckinghams,
Trumans Water,
EPMD,
Lebanon Hanover,
Audionom,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiopuhelimet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minny Pops,
Black Pus,
Johnny Clarke,
The Stooges,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Stiv Bators,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Drexciya,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roxy Music,
The Sound,
The Cowsills,
Public Image Ltd.,
La Düsseldorf,
Avey Tare,
The Knickerbockers,
The Litter,
the Sonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Cale,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.