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 Antigua and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Mumbai and Bologna.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Boogie Down Productions to the electroclash 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Sheep,
Zapp,
The Fire Engines,
Lebanon Hanover,
Judy Mowatt,
PIL,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Selecter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Morten Harket,
Panda Bear,
L. Decosne,
Bobby Byrd,
Jandek,
Ultra Naté,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warsaw,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sällskapet,
Animal Collective,
Los Fastidios,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stiv Bators,
The Trojans,
Rites of Spring,
Groovy Waters,
Interpol,
Sonic Youth,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Standells,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gerry Rafferty,
AZ,
Subhumans,
Graham Central Station,
Pulsallama,
June of 44,
John Foxx,
Robert Wyatt,
In Retrospect,
Intrusion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scratch Acid,
Connie Case,
The Dirtbombs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gladiators,
Heaven 17,
Gil Scott Heron,
Main Source,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cymande,
Lungfish,
The Young Rascals,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.