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 Angola and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rapeman to the disco 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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Charles Mingus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bill Near,
Lou Christie,
Grandmaster Flash,
Angry Samoans,
MC5,
Marcia Griffiths,
Amon Düül II,
Joe Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
Crime,
John Foxx,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
a-ha,
D'Angelo,
Sixth Finger,
Clear Light,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Count Five,
Brick,
EPMD,
Masters at Work,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
The Angels of Light,
Public Enemy,
Index,
Heaven 17,
Warsaw,
Stetsasonic,
Qualms,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rotary Connection,
Jeru the Damaja,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Flipper,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Motions,
Inner City,
Silicon Teens,
Niagra,
Funky Four + One,
The Fuzztones,
Aaron Thompson,
Deakin,
Zapp,
Dennis Brown,
Theoretical Girls,
Lalann,
Nation of Ulysses,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
This Heat,
The Wake,
Blake Baxter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Morten Harket,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.