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 Ireland and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Faraquet to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Patti Smith,
Aswad,
Rotary Connection,
Second Layer,
Shoche,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bill Near,
This Heat,
Sight & Sound,
Suicide,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Tremeloes,
Terry Callier,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Red Krayola,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Radiopuhelimet,
Delon & Dalcan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rites of Spring,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wings,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DNA,
Lightning Bolt,
The Human League,
Siglo XX,
The Smoke,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lucky Dragons,
L. Decosne,
Echospace,
The Residents,
Royal Trux,
Rod Modell,
Eric Dolphy,
A Certain Ratio,
Nirvana,
The Names,
The Modern Lovers,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Monolake,
Gang Starr,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rapeman,
Harry Pussy,
ABC,
The Real Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joe Smooth,
The Smiths,
Hashim,
R.M.O.,
Thee Headcoats,
F. McDonald,
Michelle Simonal,
Brick,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.