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 Lebanon and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lee Hazlewood to the disco 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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ossler,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Saccharine Trust,
Boogie Down Productions,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Moody Blues,
UT,
Dennis Brown,
Eden Ahbez,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tears for Fears,
CMW,
Robert Wyatt,
Electric Prunes,
Fat Boys,
Hasil Adkins,
Cheater Slicks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mary Jane Girls,
Deepchord,
Youth Brigade,
The Names,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
Subhumans,
Desert Stars,
Oblivians,
T. Rex,
ABBA,
Groovy Waters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erasure,
Yusef Lateef,
The Index,
Niagra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Barracudas,
Wings,
Fatback Band,
Visage,
Dawn Penn,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dave Gahan,
New York Dolls,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Terry,
Sun City Girls,
Stereo Dub,
Junior Murvin,
Ronan,
Anthony Braxton,
Magazine,
Camberwell Now,
Donald Byrd,
Agent Orange,
Leonard Cohen,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.