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 Swaziland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the grunge 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 United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet 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 organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Scott Walker,
Eden Ahbez,
Alphaville,
One Last Wish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Patti Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Model 500,
Skaos,
Moss Icon,
June Days,
Reuben Wilson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Groovy Waters,
Ten City,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gabor Szabo,
Brick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Circle Jerks,
June of 44,
Big Daddy Kane,
MDC,
Lyres,
UT,
cv313,
Fatback Band,
Black Bananas,
Amazonics,
New Order,
Babytalk,
Tears for Fears,
Japan,
Simply Red,
T. Rex,
The Neon Judgement,
the Soft Cell,
These Immortal Souls,
Monks,
Rufus Thomas,
Nico,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Little Man,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Searchers,
Ossler,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fugazi,
Tom Boy,
Dawn Penn,
Pussy Galore,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fluxion,
Anakelly,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nas,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.