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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Halifax.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the techno 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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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,
Swans,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker,
The Saints,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Blackbyrds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Standells,
Fugazi,
Skriet,
Arab on Radar,
Gang of Four,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Guru Guru,
Crash Course in Science,
Circle Jerks,
Clear Light,
Scientists,
Darondo,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Toasters,
The Mummies,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kerrie Biddell,
Yellowson,
Cecil Taylor,
Gong,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ohio Players,
10cc,
Nas,
Franke,
Y Pants,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
Kurtis Blow,
Wally Richardson,
Massinfluence,
Thompson Twins,
Altered Images,
T.S.O.L.,
Flash Fearless,
The Associates,
John Holt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jandek,
the Slits,
Robert Wyatt,
Agitation Free,
Heaven 17,
The Selecter,
Skaos,
Stockholm Monsters,
The American Breed,
Crooked Eye,
World's Most,
R.M.O.,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.