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 Laos and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Sonic Youth to the dance 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Parrish,
The Black Dice,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mandrill,
The Red Krayola,
The Count Five,
The Cowsills,
Jacob Miller,
Derrick Morgan,
Alton Ellis,
Erasure,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
Ludus,
Sandy B,
Marine Girls,
One Last Wish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
Heaven 17,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Barbara Tucker,
Japan,
Skaos,
Black Bananas,
T. Rex,
the Human League,
The Detroit Cobras,
Judy Mowatt,
June Days,
David Bowie,
Jawbox,
Niagra,
In Retrospect,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Smiths,
Talk Talk,
Soul II Soul,
Von Mondo,
Tres Demented,
Can,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ice-T,
FM Einheit,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
H. Thieme,
The Velvet Underground,
Silicon Teens,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Wells,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
X-Ray Spex,
Joey Negro,
The Gladiators,
Robert Hood,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.