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 Cambodia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lalann to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David McCallum,
Dual Sessions,
Charles Mingus,
Delta 5,
Brothers Johnson,
The Litter,
Mars,
Derrick May,
Marvin Gaye,
JFA,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eden Ahbez,
Guru Guru,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kenny Larkin,
Marc Almond,
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masters at Work,
Bluetip,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soft Cell,
Michelle Simonal,
Rites of Spring,
The Birthday Party,
Jimmy McGriff,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sarah Menescal,
Quadrant,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultimate Spinach,
Organ,
ABBA,
Youth Brigade,
Danielle Patucci,
Rakim,
X-102,
Bronski Beat,
Swell Maps,
Reagan Youth,
The Offenders,
Los Fastidios,
The Gories,
Gong,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
OOIOO,
Gabor Szabo,
Qualms,
Slave,
Soul II Soul,
Amazonics,
Vladislav Delay,
Robert Hood,
Kool Moe Dee,
Icehouse,
Fatback Band,
The Leaves,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.