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 San Marino and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jesper Dahlback to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro 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 linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minny Pops,
ABBA,
Smog,
Second Layer,
Audionom,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
Lebanon Hanover,
Aural Exciters,
Silicon Teens,
The Pop Group,
KRS-One,
Scott Walker,
Can,
Cymande,
Hardrive,
Michelle Simonal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Theoretical Girls,
Pierre Henry,
Gichy Dan,
Motorama,
Funky Four + One,
Yellowson,
Liliput,
Jimmy McGriff,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Happenings,
T. Rex,
Alton Ellis,
Chrome,
Lakeside,
Isaac Hayes,
Idris Muhammad,
Junior Murvin,
Inner City,
Tim Buckley,
The Selecter,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dennis Brown,
Tom Boy,
Zero Boys,
Deepchord,
The Litter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pole,
Marmalade,
Reagan Youth,
Harry Pussy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soft Cell,
Oneida,
Blake Baxter,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.