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 Cuba and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 JFA to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet 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 sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Alton Ellis,
Deepchord,
Index,
Hot Snakes,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dave Gahan,
Kerri Chandler,
The Dead C,
Yazoo,
Susan Cadogan,
Andrew Hill,
Scott Walker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Busters,
The Music Machine,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nick Fraelich,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grey Daturas,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fire Engines,
Amon Düül II,
JFA,
Panda Bear,
This Heat,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Human League,
The Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sandy B,
Can,
Siglo XX,
The Walker Brothers,
Bill Wells,
Minutemen,
Oblivians,
Byron Stingily,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Henry Cow,
The Fall,
Negative Approach,
The Cowsills,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Youth Brigade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Shuggie Otis,
Eli Mardock,
Sister Nancy,
Pantaleimon,
Underground Resistance,
kango's stein massive,
The Count Five,
Swans,
Junior Murvin,
Charles Mingus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Be Bop Deluxe,
ABBA,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.