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 Paraguay and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 theremin 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 Motorama to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet 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 clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Main Source,
La Düsseldorf,
Barrington Levy,
Symarip,
Amon Düül,
Section 25,
Tommy Roe,
Steve Hackett,
Amon Düül II,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Procol Harum,
Roy Ayers,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mojo Men,
Warren Ellis,
Althea and Donna,
Grey Daturas,
One Last Wish,
Eddi Front,
Model 500,
Intrusion,
KRS-One,
Circle Jerks,
Mr. Review,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nirvana,
Scion,
Donny Hathaway,
Ludus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Silicon Teens,
EPMD,
The Detroit Cobras,
Colin Newman,
Hoover,
The United States of America,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Average White Band,
Lungfish,
Loose Ends,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moody Blues,
10cc,
Flash Fearless,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter and Kerry,
Aswad,
Supertramp,
Patti Smith,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Animal Collective,
Barclay James Harvest,
Barry Ungar,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.