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 Sri Lanka and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 Vladislav Delay to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Standells,
R.M.O.,
Eric Copeland,
X-102,
Jeff Mills,
Davy DMX,
B.T. Express,
Jesper Dahlback,
Harmonia,
The Searchers,
The Associates,
Marmalade,
Gastr Del Sol,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Smog,
Dawn Penn,
Jerry's Kids,
Soulsonic Force,
Sugar Minott,
Jacques Brel,
Crime,
The Flesh Eaters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mantronix,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
E-Dancer,
X-Ray Spex,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Reagan Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Loose Ends,
The Black Dice,
Flipper,
The Blues Magoos,
Connie Case,
The Mighty Diamonds,
10cc,
Pagans,
The Trojans,
Ponytail,
Pere Ubu,
Man Eating Sloth,
F. McDonald,
Alice Coltrane,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soul II Soul,
Yusef Lateef,
Steve Hackett,
The Gap Band,
the Sonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
Leonard Cohen,
The Grass Roots,
Yellowson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Don Cherry,
Bob Dylan,
Cluster,
The Toasters,
Lalann,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.