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 Laos and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ 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 Barbara Tucker to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a clarinet 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 linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Association,
Isaac Hayes,
Brothers Johnson,
Royal Trux,
The Misunderstood,
Fat Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
ABBA,
Yellowson,
Scott Walker,
Country Teasers,
The Electric Prunes,
Sex Pistols,
Sixth Finger,
Maleditus Sound,
John Foxx,
UT,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yaz,
Black Moon,
The Young Rascals,
The Victims,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Sonics,
Warsaw,
Model 500,
Sarah Menescal,
Boredoms,
the Normal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Das Ding,
48th St. Collective,
Animal Collective,
Delta 5,
Fluxion,
Soft Machine,
Lakeside,
Slick Rick,
Pantaleimon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Motions,
the Human League,
The Index,
the Slits,
cv313,
Outsiders,
Main Source,
The Red Krayola,
Babytalk,
10cc,
Darondo,
Lou Reed,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
Ultravox,
Boz Scaggs,
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.