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 Netherlands and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Flesh Eaters to the dance 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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,
Barbara Tucker,
Lucky Dragons,
China Crisis,
Sonic Youth,
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marmalade,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Joensuu 1685,
Bob Dylan,
R.M.O.,
Negative Approach,
Flash Fearless,
the Bar-Kays,
Theoretical Girls,
Radiohead,
Patti Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
Donny Hathaway,
Sandy B,
Newcleus,
Anakelly,
Chris Corsano,
Scion,
10cc,
Electric Prunes,
Schoolly D,
Second Layer,
World's Most,
the Association,
The Cure,
Make Up,
Rapeman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Groovy Waters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aswad,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultravox,
Alphaville,
Matthew Halsall,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Basic Channel,
The Golliwogs,
MC5,
Roxette,
AZ,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Names,
Mark Hollis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Five Americans,
Lightning Bolt,
Throbbing Gristle,
Trumans Water,
Grey Daturas,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.