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 Madagascar and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Yaz to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Faust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Radiopuhelimet,
H. Thieme,
E-Dancer,
Funkadelic,
T.S.O.L.,
Bill Wells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wally Richardson,
Soft Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Moss Icon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skaos,
Nik Kershaw,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Names,
Reagan Youth,
The Standells,
Stiv Bators,
Faraquet,
Minutemen,
Rhythm & Sound,
Skriet,
Deadbeat,
Patti Smith,
Interpol,
Japan,
Magazine,
Pussy Galore,
Lee Hazlewood,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rakim,
Arcadia,
Hoover,
Graham Central Station,
Rotary Connection,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultra Naté,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Soft Cell,
Eric B and Rakim,
MC5,
EPMD,
Underground Resistance,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Görl,
Vladislav Delay,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hot Snakes,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Barracudas,
Stetsasonic,
Man Parrish,
Letta Mbulu,
Mars,
Aaron Thompson,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.