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 Brazil and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Fugs to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Essential Logic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flash Fearless,
Ten City,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sugar Minott,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fortunes,
Skriet,
Ice-T,
Kool Moe Dee,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
JFA,
The Offenders,
Brass Construction,
Ultravox,
Spandau Ballet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Glambeats Corp.,
UT,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Morten Harket,
Shuggie Otis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nick Fraelich,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
Nik Kershaw,
Livin' Joy,
H. Thieme,
The Moleskins,
Vainqueur,
Niagra,
Second Layer,
Pierre Henry,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Gories,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Das Ding,
Josef K,
Sound Behaviour,
Motorama,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Neon Judgement,
Charles Mingus,
Steve Hackett,
Organ,
The Doobie Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Susan Cadogan,
Leonard Cohen,
David McCallum,
Jawbox,
Joensuu 1685,
Average White Band,
Tomorrow,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.