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 Yemen and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Velvet Underground,
ABBA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
X-101,
John Cale,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Iggy Pop,
Ronan,
D'Angelo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Machine,
Masters at Work,
Lightning Bolt,
T. Rex,
LL Cool J,
Inner City,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
FM Einheit,
Audionom,
Laurel Aitken,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci,
Niagra,
Arcadia,
Pere Ubu,
Pagans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Adolescents,
Peter and Kerry,
Pierre Henry,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gap Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Fatback Band,
Crime,
Jeff Mills,
Glenn Branca,
Organ,
John Holt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Talk Talk,
Fat Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
World's Most,
Bob Dylan,
Pylon,
Massinfluence,
The Evens,
Archie Shepp,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sound,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.