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 Solomon Islands and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Janne Schatter to the techno 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ice-T,
The Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
The Slits,
Tim Buckley,
Mars,
Quando Quango,
Blake Baxter,
Althea and Donna,
Funkadelic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Pretty Things,
Cheater Slicks,
Cybotron,
Make Up,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tubeway Army,
The Associates,
Gang of Four,
the Slits,
Suburban Knight,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vainqueur,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Stetsasonic,
Todd Terry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minor Threat,
Brand Nubian,
Camberwell Now,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
This Heat,
Deakin,
Harmonia,
China Crisis,
Ronan,
Das Ding,
Warsaw,
Soft Cell,
A Certain Ratio,
Flamin' Groovies,
Zero Boys,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Hill,
Lindisfarne,
Barclay James Harvest,
Erykah Badu,
Grey Daturas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roy Ayers,
Icehouse,
Con Funk Shun,
Patti Smith,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.