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 Iraq and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Drive Like Jehu to the rap 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Desert Stars,
Brick,
Bush Tetras,
The Zeros,
The Music Machine,
The Names,
Hashim,
Minutemen,
The Fugs,
Con Funk Shun,
Infiniti,
Ultra Naté,
Accadde A,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Darondo,
Sällskapet,
Alphaville,
Pole,
Rosa Yemen,
Television Personalities,
Letta Mbulu,
Unrelated Segments,
Little Man,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DJ Sneak,
Oblivians,
Wally Richardson,
Pere Ubu,
Minor Threat,
The Offenders,
Vainqueur,
Lakeside,
Black Flag,
Sun Ra,
Fat Boys,
The Young Rascals,
The Gap Band,
Jandek,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nick Fraelich,
The New Christs,
Jeff Mills,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Depeche Mode,
Piero Umiliani,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nirvana,
Hardrive,
Bronski Beat,
Iggy Pop,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tubeway Army,
Porter Ricks,
The Barracudas,
Eddi Front,
One Last Wish,
Thee Headcoats,
Q and Not U,
Charles Mingus,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.