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 Canada and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 organ 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 Buzzcocks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Negative Approach,
Accadde A,
Sällskapet,
Supertramp,
Newcleus,
Deakin,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sound Behaviour,
Guru Guru,
Wasted Youth,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joe Smooth,
Second Layer,
Leonard Cohen,
Amon Düül II,
Jeff Mills,
Camberwell Now,
Moss Icon,
The Human League,
Magazine,
The Vogues,
Mr. Review,
Gang Starr,
Porter Ricks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Duran Duran,
Outsiders,
Lalo Schifrin,
MC5,
Amon Düül,
Marvin Gaye,
Brothers Johnson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
These Immortal Souls,
The Blackbyrds,
Thompson Twins,
Angry Samoans,
Piero Umiliani,
Johnny Osbourne,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yaz,
Pulsallama,
Tom Boy,
Eric Dolphy,
The Golliwogs,
The Selecter,
Ludus,
The Evens,
The Beau Brummels,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quadrant,
Jerry Gold Smith,
EPMD,
Inner City,
Stiv Bators,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Hill,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.