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 Switzerland and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Easy Going to the techno 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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,
Big Daddy Kane,
D'Angelo,
The Stooges,
Bob Dylan,
Barry Ungar,
Nik Kershaw,
Johnny Clarke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fluxion,
Black Moon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warsaw,
Judy Mowatt,
The Wake,
Ronan,
Neu!,
Camouflage,
Fela Kuti,
Moby Grape,
the Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
The Alarm Clocks,
EPMD,
Underground Resistance,
Easy Going,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Animal Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Coltrane,
The Busters,
Kas Product,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lebanon Hanover,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lalann,
Thee Headcoats,
Soul II Soul,
Television Personalities,
The Moody Blues,
Subhumans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
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Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Little Man,
Sexual Harrassment,
Letta Mbulu,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crime,
Inner City,
Interpol,
Suburban Knight,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New York Dolls,
Ken Boothe,
Brand Nubian,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dead Boys,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.