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 Russia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Toasters to the electroclash 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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba 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 chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Aaron Thompson,
The Monochrome Set,
Byron Stingily,
Vainqueur,
Fort Wilson Riot,
John Lydon,
Peter & Gordon,
The Toasters,
The Mummies,
Todd Rundgren,
Nick Fraelich,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
Eli Mardock,
David Bowie,
Cymande,
Barrington Levy,
Roxy Music,
Leonard Cohen,
Tom Boy,
Unwound,
Nils Olav,
Eric Copeland,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fad Gadget,
Electric Light Orchestra,
cv313,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Cale,
Mars,
The Buckinghams,
Robert Hood,
Bobby Byrd,
The Saints,
The Monks,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Leaves,
Ludus,
New York Dolls,
Ponytail,
Warren Ellis,
Pagans,
The Smoke,
Qualms,
Rakim,
Masters at Work,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Al Stewart,
Y Pants,
Pussy Galore,
Sällskapet,
Minny Pops,
The Martian,
Archie Shepp,
Funkadelic,
The Techniques,
Barry Ungar,
Lindisfarne,
Maurizio,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.