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 St Lucia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grime 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a theremin 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 arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Neon Judgement,
Second Layer,
Marvin Gaye,
the Bar-Kays,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Evens,
Kaleidoscope,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Moleskins,
Simply Red,
Eli Mardock,
Vainqueur,
Eric Copeland,
The Litter,
Roy Ayers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
Aaron Thompson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
EPMD,
Scientists,
Tom Boy,
Skriet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Archie Shepp,
Organ,
Urselle,
Supertramp,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Donny Hathaway,
Yellowson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pussy Galore,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
June of 44,
The Wake,
Brass Construction,
Nico,
The Grass Roots,
Joyce Sims,
Model 500,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
Bush Tetras,
Sonic Youth,
AZ,
The Knickerbockers,
Gabor Szabo,
Tomorrow,
The Mojo Men,
T.S.O.L.,
Moebius,
DJ Style,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.