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 Andorra and from Halifax.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Japan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Sheep,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Gap Band,
Agitation Free,
Arcadia,
Franke,
David McCallum,
Pylon,
Los Fastidios,
Jeff Mills,
Gang of Four,
Scrapy,
Bronski Beat,
Sam Rivers,
The Red Krayola,
Rod Modell,
The Names,
Lakeside,
Rakim,
Rotary Connection,
Quantec,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
Eric B and Rakim,
Organ,
The Trojans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Adolescents,
Clear Light,
Royal Trux,
Sister Nancy,
The Fugs,
Soulsonic Force,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Motions,
Minutemen,
Bobby Byrd,
Jeff Lynne,
CMW,
Loose Ends,
Angry Samoans,
Delta 5,
Eric Dolphy,
The J.B.'s,
Quando Quango,
The Smiths,
Agent Orange,
the Germs,
Rosa Yemen,
Deepchord,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sight & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
The Wake,
Alphaville,
Lower 48,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.