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 El Salvador and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lou Reed to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Amon Düül II,
the Association,
Godley & Creme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zapp,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Beau Brummels,
Q65,
Von Mondo,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
H. Thieme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Adolescents,
Half Japanese,
Lakeside,
10cc,
Danielle Patucci,
Duran Duran,
the Slits,
Fat Boys,
The Pop Group,
Junior Murvin,
PIL,
Absolute Body Control,
Jacob Miller,
The Victims,
Amon Düül,
John Cale,
The Remains,
Robert Görl,
The Cowsills,
Girls At Our Best!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Quantec,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Reuben Wilson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marc Almond,
Qualms,
OOIOO,
The Stooges,
The Raincoats,
Con Funk Shun,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Real Kids,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Blackbyrds,
The Angels of Light,
The Fugs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marvin Gaye,
Brothers Johnson,
Zero Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.