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 Cape Verde and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Human League to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
The Index,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gichy Dan,
Toni Rubio,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bronski Beat,
Public Image Ltd.,
U.S. Maple,
Harmonia,
Brothers Johnson,
the Swans,
Minutemen,
Nirvana,
F. McDonald,
Roxy Music,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Remains,
The Gun Club,
kango's stein massive,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donny Hathaway,
Eurythmics,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Raincoats,
Angry Samoans,
Marmalade,
Reuben Wilson,
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
Arcadia,
Minor Threat,
Neu!,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gap Band,
Aural Exciters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Pus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blossom Toes,
Jerry's Kids,
Sexual Harrassment,
Yusef Lateef,
The Busters,
Malaria!,
The Moleskins,
Little Man,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hardrive,
Lyres,
L. Decosne,
John Cale,
June Days,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang Gang Dance,
ABC,
World's Most,
Reagan Youth,
Nick Fraelich,
Arthur Verocai,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.