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 Togo and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Talk Talk to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin 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 guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Black Sheep,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television,
Eurythmics,
T. Rex,
New Order,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bad Manners,
Camouflage,
JFA,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bob Dylan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Pus,
Cymande,
Bill Wells,
Angry Samoans,
The Mummies,
Jandek,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ice-T,
Terrestrial Tones,
48th St. Collective,
The Birthday Party,
Davy DMX,
Magma,
Blossom Toes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Invisible,
The Mojo Men,
The Cramps,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Black Moon,
Swans,
David Axelrod,
Deepchord,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Star Department,
The Smiths,
The Saints,
Bizarre Inc.,
Desert Stars,
Eric B and Rakim,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gregory Isaacs,
World's Most,
Fugazi,
kango's stein massive,
DJ Style,
CMW,
Franke,
China Crisis,
Nick Fraelich,
MC5,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Minor Threat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.