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 Portugal and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Ice-T to the dance 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
The Mummies,
Flipper,
Section 25,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Busters,
A Certain Ratio,
Eden Ahbez,
Maleditus Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sonic Youth,
The Leaves,
Slick Rick,
Henry Cow,
The Last Poets,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Real Kids,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marine Girls,
Joyce Sims,
Rakim,
John Lydon,
Bluetip,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minny Pops,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mo-Dettes,
Avey Tare,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Half Japanese,
The Trojans,
Colin Newman,
Marvin Gaye,
Agent Orange,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camouflage,
Pagans,
The Black Dice,
Lower 48,
Circle Jerks,
The Victims,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mars,
Popol Vuh,
Hot Snakes,
The Skatalites,
Erykah Badu,
This Heat,
Tom Boy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Golliwogs,
Fad Gadget,
Brothers Johnson,
Lindisfarne,
Black Moon,
FM Einheit,
Gerry Rafferty,
Black Flag,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.