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 Kazakhstan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grime 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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord 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 clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Donny Hathaway,
Laurel Aitken,
The Divine Comedy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ludus,
Alison Limerick,
Ultravox,
The Fortunes,
UT,
AZ,
Organ,
Scion,
The Litter,
The Offenders,
Kayak,
The Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Selecter,
Pantytec,
Pylon,
Thompson Twins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Animal Collective,
Newcleus,
Erykah Badu,
Dave Gahan,
The Martian,
Arthur Verocai,
Electric Prunes,
Sun City Girls,
China Crisis,
Liliput,
Basic Channel,
Sex Pistols,
Vainqueur,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bob Dylan,
Funky Four + One,
Ossler,
Aural Exciters,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Skatalites,
Bad Manners,
The Slackers,
Pulsallama,
Stetsasonic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Spoonie Gee,
Royal Trux,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Roy Ayers,
Gang of Four,
the Normal,
Chrome,
Quando Quango,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.