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 Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Basic Channel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare 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 theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Angry Samoans,
Kerrie Biddell,
MC5,
Cheater Slicks,
Pierre Henry,
Colin Newman,
F. McDonald,
Tim Buckley,
The Index,
Ossler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Move,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ten City,
Buzzcocks,
Interpol,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kerri Chandler,
Oneida,
The Monochrome Set,
Aaron Thompson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pylon,
Minny Pops,
DJ Sneak,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erykah Badu,
The Golliwogs,
The Invisible,
Ralphi Rosario,
Parry Music,
Bush Tetras,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bronski Beat,
The Real Kids,
Rod Modell,
Quando Quango,
This Heat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Slave,
The Motions,
Rakim,
The Leaves,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Vladislav Delay,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deepchord,
Delta 5,
Livin' Joy,
The Angels of Light,
Laurel Aitken,
Ronan,
Panda Bear,
Ornette Coleman,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.