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 Brazil and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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,
ABBA,
D'Angelo,
Bill Wells,
Lightning Bolt,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Boredoms,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cowsills,
JFA,
The Pop Group,
MDC,
The Cramps,
China Crisis,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soft Machine,
Deadbeat,
Liliput,
The Alarm Clocks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scion,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alphaville,
The Moody Blues,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fluxion,
the Sonics,
Amon Düül,
Mr. Review,
Michelle Simonal,
Funky Four + One,
Blake Baxter,
Throbbing Gristle,
T. Rex,
Brick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Althea and Donna,
Icehouse,
Eurythmics,
Ronan,
The Cure,
Bad Manners,
U.S. Maple,
Erykah Badu,
Tres Demented,
Grauzone,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jacques Brel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minny Pops,
Harry Pussy,
Erasure,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Brass Construction,
The Young Rascals,
Sparks,
The Black Dice,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.