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 El Salvador and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 UT to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Pantaleimon,
Flipper,
Jacques Brel,
Isaac Hayes,
Cymande,
Section 25,
Ten City,
Mandrill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Evens,
The Victims,
Severed Heads,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Dirtbombs,
Tim Buckley,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Laurel Aitken,
Popol Vuh,
The Last Poets,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eddi Front,
Sam Rivers,
Camouflage,
Tears for Fears,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Wyatt,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pole,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fire Engines,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Buzzcocks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Big Daddy Kane,
X-102,
Fad Gadget,
B.T. Express,
The Offenders,
Albert Ayler,
Thee Headcoats,
Spoonie Gee,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hoover,
Bobby Byrd,
Saccharine Trust,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Khruangbin,
Aaron Thompson,
Hot Snakes,
Stereo Dub,
Inner City,
Toni Rubio,
Donny Hathaway,
Amon Düül II,
New Order,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.