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 Palau and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Monolake to the grime 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Techniques,
Cheater Slicks,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Skatalites,
Bush Tetras,
K-Klass,
Hasil Adkins,
The Residents,
The Gun Club,
Alton Ellis,
The Fugs,
The Grass Roots,
Matthew Halsall,
Pierre Henry,
Godley & Creme,
Panda Bear,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flamin' Groovies,
New Order,
Procol Harum,
Eric Copeland,
Technova,
Yellowson,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Pus,
Sparks,
Amazonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Reuben Wilson,
The Seeds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
Thee Headcoats,
L. Decosne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cal Tjader,
Todd Rundgren,
Crime,
U.S. Maple,
Ponytail,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gang Starr,
The Black Dice,
Deepchord,
The Barracudas,
Johnny Clarke,
Johnny Osbourne,
Spoonie Gee,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Josef K,
Scratch Acid,
Basic Channel,
Connie Case,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.