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 Vietnam and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jawbox to the jazz 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Davy DMX,
Lakeside,
Audionom,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall,
The Searchers,
Erasure,
Angry Samoans,
Fat Boys,
Albert Ayler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pulsallama,
Sight & Sound,
Stereo Dub,
The Pop Group,
The Toasters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Swans,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Silicon Teens,
Dual Sessions,
Camberwell Now,
The Velvet Underground,
Public Image Ltd.,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Charles Mingus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fire Engines,
The Walker Brothers,
Pierre Henry,
Sarah Menescal,
Lyres,
The Barracudas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Susan Cadogan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun City Girls,
Slave,
Fad Gadget,
The Shadows of Knight,
AZ,
The Saints,
Warsaw,
Chris & Cosey,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
Letta Mbulu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Flash Fearless,
Livin' Joy,
The Move,
The Angels of Light,
Isaac Hayes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bootsy Collins,
Y Pants,
Technova,
Mars,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.