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 Cuba and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin 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 Banda Bassotti to the jazz 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Animal Collective,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sonics,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aswad,
DNA,
Altered Images,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Josef K,
the Association,
Lungfish,
The Names,
Mars,
Hasil Adkins,
Sparks,
Crash Course in Science,
Echospace,
Procol Harum,
Piero Umiliani,
Q65,
The Gories,
Dawn Penn,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ponytail,
Junior Murvin,
World's Most,
The Zeros,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rekid,
Cameo,
Flipper,
Soul Sonic Force,
Zero Boys,
Mr. Review,
Mo-Dettes,
The Divine Comedy,
New Order,
Second Layer,
Fad Gadget,
Absolute Body Control,
The Slits,
Ohio Players,
The Gap Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Loose Ends,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra,
Joyce Sims,
The Associates,
Newcleus,
Jeff Lynne,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nils Olav,
Soft Cell,
The Flesh Eaters,
10cc,
The Fortunes,
Qualms,
Livin' Joy,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.