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 Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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,
Scion,
Oblivians,
Mantronix,
Pylon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television,
The Grass Roots,
10cc,
Kenny Larkin,
MDC,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Altered Images,
The Divine Comedy,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Cale,
Tubeway Army,
Todd Rundgren,
Marmalade,
The Modern Lovers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Birthday Party,
Jawbox,
Essential Logic,
The J.B.'s,
Public Image Ltd.,
Adolescents,
Magma,
The Last Poets,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Half Japanese,
Saccharine Trust,
Kerri Chandler,
Masters at Work,
Maleditus Sound,
Davy DMX,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rites of Spring,
the Human League,
L. Decosne,
Bobby Byrd,
Sound Behaviour,
Freddie Wadling,
Carl Craig,
Yusef Lateef,
Bauhaus,
The Tremeloes,
Funky Four + One,
Maurizio,
The Skatalites,
The Durutti Column,
The Golliwogs,
Ten City,
The Detroit Cobras,
AZ,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.