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 South Sudan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Mantronix to the electroclash 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Radio Birdman,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Germs,
Scrapy,
Royal Trux,
Marine Girls,
The Cramps,
Bang On A Can,
Tim Buckley,
The Litter,
Laurel Aitken,
Sound Behaviour,
Japan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Television,
Mandrill,
Tres Demented,
The United States of America,
Radiohead,
Lindisfarne,
Duran Duran,
Zero Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
Sarah Menescal,
The Remains,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fortunes,
Circle Jerks,
Kayak,
Joyce Sims,
Eli Mardock,
Scientists,
Chrome,
Todd Rundgren,
Nick Fraelich,
Dual Sessions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ohio Players,
Oneida,
Young Marble Giants,
Don Cherry,
Gong,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ronan,
Tom Boy,
Scratch Acid,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nils Olav,
Amazonics,
U.S. Maple,
Patti Smith,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wally Richardson,
June of 44,
DJ Sneak,
the Association,
The Moleskins,
Depeche Mode,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.