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 Albania and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Divine Comedy to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gregory Isaacs,
The American Breed,
Sam Rivers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hot Snakes,
The Young Rascals,
Marc Almond,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Copeland,
Barrington Levy,
Todd Rundgren,
The Star Department,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Skriet,
La Düsseldorf,
the Germs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crime,
Scrapy,
The Trojans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Gang Dance,
Todd Terry,
Hashim,
Shoche,
Susan Cadogan,
Ossler,
Michelle Simonal,
Albert Ayler,
Chris Corsano,
Scan 7,
Derrick May,
Leonard Cohen,
Clear Light,
X-102,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pagans,
Brand Nubian,
Lalo Schifrin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bob Dylan,
Spandau Ballet,
Technova,
Camberwell Now,
Zero Boys,
Jawbox,
Y Pants,
Sonic Youth,
The Golliwogs,
B.T. Express,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wasted Youth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Sherman,
a-ha,
R.M.O.,
Basic Channel,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.