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 Estonia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba 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 Guru Guru to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Procol Harum,
Scott Walker,
Icehouse,
The Martian,
Young Marble Giants,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Human League,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
U.S. Maple,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
JFA,
Josef K,
Babytalk,
Negative Approach,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Neon Judgement,
a-ha,
Boredoms,
Crime,
The Modern Lovers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
Harpers Bizarre,
Outsiders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pierre Henry,
Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Christie,
Agitation Free,
Fear,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
The Stooges,
Au Pairs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
cv313,
Nirvana,
Qualms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deepchord,
Banda Bassotti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cameo,
Rod Modell,
Suburban Knight,
Rakim,
LL Cool J,
Ten City,
Isaac Hayes,
The Velvet Underground,
Robert Wyatt,
Pagans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.