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 Oman and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Isaac Hayes to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Massinfluence,
The Black Dice,
Ronnie Foster,
Negative Approach,
Agent Orange,
The Durutti Column,
Fela Kuti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
Todd Rundgren,
Technova,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Marvin Gaye,
Alice Coltrane,
Niagra,
Amazonics,
Derrick May,
Charles Mingus,
Q65,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lakeside,
Sex Pistols,
Ludus,
Tubeway Army,
The Detroit Cobras,
Blake Baxter,
Swans,
The Velvet Underground,
Michelle Simonal,
Delta 5,
Rufus Thomas,
Black Sheep,
Alphaville,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Swell Maps,
The Monochrome Set,
Connie Case,
Joy Division,
Pere Ubu,
The Sonics,
Duran Duran,
Amon Düül,
Tears for Fears,
The Stooges,
Bill Wells,
Crime,
Fear,
Ken Boothe,
Deakin,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Enemy,
Steve Hackett,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Vladislav Delay,
Barbara Tucker,
Marine Girls,
The Smoke,
Reuben Wilson,
These Immortal Souls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.