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 Luxembourg and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Brass Construction to the grime 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Electric Prunes,
Bill Wells,
The Associates,
Niagra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skaos,
The Misunderstood,
Leonard Cohen,
Delta 5,
Blancmange,
Scott Walker,
Lucky Dragons,
Porter Ricks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fugazi,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Youth Brigade,
The Techniques,
Bootsy Collins,
The Fire Engines,
L. Decosne,
Brick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Motorama,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joensuu 1685,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fat Boys,
Crime,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultra Naté,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Womack,
Grey Daturas,
Country Teasers,
The Happenings,
Mandrill,
Minny Pops,
Echospace,
John Foxx,
Laurel Aitken,
Marine Girls,
The Skatalites,
Main Source,
Fela Kuti,
Kurtis Blow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crooked Eye,
Tommy Roe,
cv313,
Chris Corsano,
Lindisfarne,
Bronski Beat,
Roger Hodgson,
Maurizio,
X-102,
the Association,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.