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 Czech Republic and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin 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 Reagan Youth to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
The Fortunes,
The Slits,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Davy DMX,
The Remains,
Massinfluence,
Boredoms,
Hoover,
Wasted Youth,
Little Man,
Jawbox,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dave Gahan,
Dark Day,
Soft Machine,
Thee Headcoats,
One Last Wish,
Ice-T,
Parry Music,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deadbeat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joe Finger,
Todd Terry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
MC5,
Technova,
Fluxion,
The Fall,
Sarah Menescal,
Peter and Kerry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Angry Samoans,
Eden Ahbez,
Dead Boys,
Warren Ellis,
The Vogues,
Hashim,
Circle Jerks,
PIL,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Quadrant,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
a-ha,
The Happenings,
The Black Dice,
The Dirtbombs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joey Negro,
X-Ray Spex,
John Coltrane,
Buzzcocks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pole,
Bang On A Can,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.