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 Madagascar and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb 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 Audionom to the grunge 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro 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 an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
LL Cool J,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DJ Sneak,
Gabor Szabo,
New York Dolls,
The Fall,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bang On A Can,
Sun City Girls,
The Doobie Brothers,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lakeside,
Altered Images,
the Bar-Kays,
Nirvana,
The Red Krayola,
Jandek,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Techniques,
Banda Bassotti,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Urselle,
Swell Maps,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minor Threat,
Ohio Players,
Nik Kershaw,
L. Decosne,
Trumans Water,
Jacques Brel,
Babytalk,
Warsaw,
Black Bananas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deakin,
Danielle Patucci,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Junior Murvin,
Underground Resistance,
Tim Buckley,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fugs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Sheep,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ice-T,
Amon Düül II,
a-ha,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kenny Larkin,
Reagan Youth,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris Corsano,
Rosa Yemen,
Howard Jones,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.