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 Lebanon and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Guru Guru to the grime 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin 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 arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Panda Bear,
Aloha Tigers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tubeway Army,
Babytalk,
The Buckinghams,
Skarface,
The Birthday Party,
Ten City,
Danielle Patucci,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Fugs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Drive Like Jehu,
Outsiders,
Nils Olav,
The Tremeloes,
New Age Steppers,
Minor Threat,
Sound Behaviour,
the Swans,
New Order,
Judy Mowatt,
H. Thieme,
Fugazi,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Remains,
Carl Craig,
Essential Logic,
The Barracudas,
Dual Sessions,
Kenny Larkin,
Loose Ends,
Television Personalities,
Circle Jerks,
Brand Nubian,
Brothers Johnson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minnie Riperton,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Boredoms,
Rod Modell,
Cameo,
Minutemen,
Lungfish,
U.S. Maple,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Modern Lovers,
The Walker Brothers,
Pantaleimon,
June Days,
Gichy Dan,
The Beau Brummels,
Moby Grape,
Sam Rivers,
JFA,
Joe Finger,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.