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 Ivory Coast and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Yellowson to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
Eli Mardock,
China Crisis,
Black Sheep,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Byrd,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jacques Brel,
Susan Cadogan,
Public Enemy,
The Gun Club,
Schoolly D,
Electric Prunes,
The American Breed,
Boz Scaggs,
Albert Ayler,
Liliput,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Glenn Branca,
The United States of America,
Faraquet,
ABBA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Cure,
DJ Style,
Country Teasers,
Mantronix,
Quadrant,
Aural Exciters,
Tubeway Army,
The Moleskins,
Basic Channel,
Toni Rubio,
L. Decosne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Dawn Penn,
Barclay James Harvest,
Unrelated Segments,
John Cale,
Bang On A Can,
Erasure,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Fela Kuti,
Average White Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Buckinghams,
Rekid,
Ossler,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Boredoms,
The Music Machine,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.