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 Lithuania and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Skarface to the rock 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marc Almond,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers,
Aaron Thompson,
Nik Kershaw,
Hardrive,
The Doors,
The Gap Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mo-Dettes,
Cheater Slicks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Heaven 17,
Parry Music,
Robert Hood,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül,
The Offenders,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Blackbyrds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boogie Down Productions,
Second Layer,
Symarip,
Magma,
Mantronix,
Yellowson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bob Dylan,
The Evens,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jandek,
Ultimate Spinach,
Drexciya,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Parrish,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Suicide,
Pulsallama,
Howard Jones,
Newcleus,
Janne Schatter,
The Divine Comedy,
Adolescents,
the Swans,
Aural Exciters,
John Foxx,
John Lydon,
Tres Demented,
Girls At Our Best!,
Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Flipper,
Kayak,
Sun City Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deakin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ornette Coleman,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.