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 Liechtenstein and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Lakeside to the crunk 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Doors,
K-Klass,
Junior Murvin,
ABBA,
The Count Five,
James White and The Blacks,
Fluxion,
Agent Orange,
The Victims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Techniques,
Slave,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fuzztones,
The Golliwogs,
Jacob Miller,
Young Marble Giants,
Joyce Sims,
Juan Atkins,
Groovy Waters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sound,
Funkadelic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Blossom Toes,
Black Moon,
The Smiths,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Buckinghams,
Scott Walker,
Ronnie Foster,
Jerry's Kids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dennis Brown,
Ponytail,
These Immortal Souls,
Ornette Coleman,
Altered Images,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Traffic Nightmare,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Los Fastidios,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gang of Four,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mark Hollis,
The Music Machine,
Can,
Faust,
The Pop Group,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eurythmics,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.