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 Zimbabwe and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ohio Players to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Cale,
The Fortunes,
Isaac Hayes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Darondo,
Nirvana,
The Golliwogs,
The Gories,
Boredoms,
Icehouse,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cowsills,
The Sound,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Moon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Donny Hathaway,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marcia Griffiths,
8 Eyed Spy,
T. Rex,
Todd Rundgren,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oblivians,
Prince Buster,
Josef K,
June Days,
Fat Boys,
Bush Tetras,
The Motions,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The J.B.'s,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Count Five,
The Residents,
Blancmange,
Quantec,
Thee Headcoats,
China Crisis,
The Wake,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Seeds,
Brass Construction,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Gladiators,
Ossler,
Index,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pylon,
Nik Kershaw,
Eric Copeland,
Lou Reed,
Harpers Bizarre,
Unrelated Segments,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.