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 Uganda and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Associates to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cymande,
Chris & Cosey,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Toasters,
the Normal,
Zero Boys,
Marine Girls,
Grauzone,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ohio Players,
Steve Hackett,
Henry Cow,
June Days,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
China Crisis,
The Beau Brummels,
Das Ding,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Aswad,
Radiopuhelimet,
Con Funk Shun,
Altered Images,
Porter Ricks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fad Gadget,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gun Club,
Max Romeo,
The Raincoats,
Blossom Toes,
Jimmy McGriff,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Livin' Joy,
Roy Ayers,
The Monochrome Set,
Pylon,
Josef K,
Jacob Miller,
The Buckinghams,
The Fugs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Masters at Work,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roger Hodgson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ponytail,
Gang of Four,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Walker Brothers,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Slackers,
Sonic Youth,
Pulsallama,
Maleditus Sound,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Germs,
Brass Construction,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.