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 Benin and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Walker Brothers to the grime 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Charles Mingus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bauhaus,
Rufus Thomas,
Essential Logic,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Sherman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
World's Most,
Marmalade,
Ludus,
The Sonics,
Harmonia,
The Litter,
Pantaleimon,
The Moody Blues,
Joe Smooth,
Eric Dolphy,
Skarface,
Stetsasonic,
Mandrill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Wire,
Mo-Dettes,
Don Cherry,
AZ,
Adolescents,
the Germs,
Bill Near,
Carl Craig,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Main Source,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Standells,
Newcleus,
Spandau Ballet,
Roy Ayers,
DNA,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Khruangbin,
Pantytec,
Robert Wyatt,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Slits,
The Beau Brummels,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sight & Sound,
The Cramps,
Rapeman,
The Young Rascals,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers,
Ponytail,
Schoolly D,
Godley & Creme,
Danielle Patucci,
Metal Thangz,
The Offenders,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.