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 Nauru and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 theremin 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 Soul Sonic Force to the punk 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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Faraquet,
Minnie Riperton,
Tommy Roe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Neu!,
John Foxx,
China Crisis,
Black Pus,
Parry Music,
Malaria!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quando Quango,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terry Callier,
Tears for Fears,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
Masters at Work,
Darondo,
Erasure,
Sister Nancy,
Reuben Wilson,
Japan,
Donald Byrd,
Amazonics,
Derrick May,
The Zeros,
Infiniti,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Grandmaster Flash,
Banda Bassotti,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Faust,
David Axelrod,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marvin Gaye,
Joe Smooth,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Lydon,
the Slits,
CMW,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sarah Menescal,
Roxy Music,
Dennis Brown,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ten City,
Slick Rick,
Michelle Simonal,
10cc,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Radio Birdman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aswad,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.