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 Fiji and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aural Exciters to the crunk 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Shuggie Otis,
Bad Manners,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Electric Prunes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Al Stewart,
Hardrive,
Sällskapet,
Dave Gahan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dennis Brown,
Altered Images,
Peter and Kerry,
Eden Ahbez,
Ludus,
The Mummies,
The Victims,
Au Pairs,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gories,
Deakin,
Fatback Band,
Thee Headcoats,
The Busters,
In Retrospect,
Loose Ends,
Los Fastidios,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Divine Comedy,
CMW,
Bobby Byrd,
The Moody Blues,
Flipper,
The Techniques,
Rosa Yemen,
Oblivians,
Cameo,
Accadde A,
Bootsy Collins,
Arcadia,
Guru Guru,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Porter Ricks,
Qualms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nico,
Trumans Water,
Carl Craig,
a-ha,
Hasil Adkins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Warsaw,
Ronan,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.