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 Kyrgyzstan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Christie,
kango's stein massive,
Hasil Adkins,
Depeche Mode,
World's Most,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultra Naté,
Barry Ungar,
Kerrie Biddell,
Underground Resistance,
The Blues Magoos,
Loose Ends,
Tomorrow,
Qualms,
Altered Images,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bob Dylan,
Subhumans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Slick Rick,
Yellowson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Walker Brothers,
10cc,
Rufus Thomas,
China Crisis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Matthew Bourne,
Oblivians,
Ohio Players,
The Beau Brummels,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Associates,
Prince Buster,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Prunes,
Archie Shepp,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Los Fastidios,
AZ,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Peter & Gordon,
Piero Umiliani,
Crispian St. Peters,
Spoonie Gee,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Divine Comedy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tubeway Army,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mantronix,
The Smoke,
The Busters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.