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 St Lucia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Stetsasonic to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba 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 sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Severed Heads,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Susan Cadogan,
Liliput,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Kinks,
Chris & Cosey,
Warsaw,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Almond,
Roxette,
Jawbox,
The Durutti Column,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Chris Corsano,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sarah Menescal,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wally Richardson,
Junior Murvin,
Theoretical Girls,
The Wake,
The Golliwogs,
Barrington Levy,
Hoover,
Nik Kershaw,
Monolake,
Lakeside,
Depeche Mode,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
John Lydon,
Joey Negro,
Steve Hackett,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang of Four,
EPMD,
Crispian St. Peters,
Thompson Twins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sam Rivers,
R.M.O.,
The Techniques,
The Mojo Men,
Clear Light,
Pylon,
Morten Harket,
Boogie Down Productions,
Qualms,
Sonic Youth,
Ultra Naté,
Minutemen,
Fluxion,
Leonard Cohen,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Juan Atkins,
Charles Mingus,
Con Funk Shun,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.