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 Sweden and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Loose Ends to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tubeway Army,
The Moody Blues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick Morgan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joy Division,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Adolescents,
Parry Music,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Searchers,
Reuben Wilson,
Roy Ayers,
Depeche Mode,
Piero Umiliani,
Nils Olav,
Archie Shepp,
The Skatalites,
Amon Düül,
Bronski Beat,
Curtis Mayfield,
ABC,
Ronan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gabor Szabo,
Soulsonic Force,
Deepchord,
Johnny Clarke,
The Sisters of Mercy,
New Age Steppers,
Jacob Miller,
Stockholm Monsters,
Crooked Eye,
Funky Four + One,
Ultimate Spinach,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cameo,
Eli Mardock,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Max Romeo,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
AZ,
Technova,
The United States of America,
Gang Gang Dance,
Qualms,
Bobby Sherman,
ABBA,
Dual Sessions,
The Pop Group,
John Holt,
Marc Almond,
Alison Limerick,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Shadows of Knight,
Carl Craig,
Hot Snakes,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.