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 Nauru and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a linndrum 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 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?
Wire,
Boogie Down Productions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Excepter,
The Birthday Party,
Maurizio,
Depeche Mode,
Arcadia,
Moby Grape,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jacob Miller,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
Eli Mardock,
B.T. Express,
Joyce Sims,
China Crisis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Radio Birdman,
Tomorrow,
MC5,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fugazi,
Siglo XX,
The Victims,
Glenn Branca,
Albert Ayler,
The Star Department,
Matthew Halsall,
Dave Gahan,
Shoche,
The Remains,
The Kinks,
Clear Light,
Sun City Girls,
Lakeside,
Pagans,
Fear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ken Boothe,
Royal Trux,
Pulsallama,
DJ Style,
The Gories,
The Zeros,
Kerri Chandler,
The Blackbyrds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minnie Riperton,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Electric Prunes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quadrant,
FM Einheit,
ABC,
Max Romeo,
Ituana,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Last Poets,
Mr. Review,
The Skatalites,
The Residents,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.