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 Antigua and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the crunk 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Stereo Dub,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gichy Dan,
Scratch Acid,
Blake Baxter,
Crime,
Rufus Thomas,
Judy Mowatt,
Eurythmics,
Silicon Teens,
Radio Birdman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
MDC,
Graham Central Station,
Fad Gadget,
Groovy Waters,
Malaria!,
Moebius,
Slave,
DNA,
Metal Thangz,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobby Sherman,
Nirvana,
CMW,
Zero Boys,
FM Einheit,
Janne Schatter,
Wolf Eyes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronan,
Rekid,
OOIOO,
Jerry's Kids,
The Mummies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rites of Spring,
Smog,
Fugazi,
Blancmange,
Connie Case,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Livin' Joy,
The Beau Brummels,
Mark Hollis,
This Heat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Howard Jones,
Wasted Youth,
Second Layer,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fall,
Terry Callier,
Tim Buckley,
the Germs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.