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 Greece and from Milan.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jawbox to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funky Four + One,
The Smiths,
Simply Red,
The Selecter,
The Sonics,
Cameo,
Amazonics,
John Holt,
Liliput,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pantaleimon,
Soulsonic Force,
Soft Cell,
James White and The Blacks,
Patti Smith,
Stiv Bators,
the Slits,
Ludus,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Johnny Clarke,
Main Source,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Dead C,
Jimmy McGriff,
These Immortal Souls,
Whodini,
Nico,
Monks,
Mantronix,
Von Mondo,
Yusef Lateef,
Theoretical Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Ice-T,
Lindisfarne,
Peter & Gordon,
Jeff Lynne,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harmonia,
Kerri Chandler,
Alison Limerick,
Half Japanese,
Roxy Music,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Davy DMX,
Pantytec,
The Barracudas,
Ultravox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cal Tjader,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visage,
Radiohead,
Lalo Schifrin,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.