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 France and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Pantytec to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord 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 oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Lou Reed,
Roxette,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brass Construction,
Glambeats Corp.,
Audionom,
Parry Music,
The Mummies,
Soul II Soul,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Walker Brothers,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fugs,
Aural Exciters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Angry Samoans,
Brothers Johnson,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Count Five,
The Wake,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alice Coltrane,
Depeche Mode,
Kenny Larkin,
Sugar Minott,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Swell Maps,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Zeros,
Electric Prunes,
David McCallum,
June Days,
Flipper,
Alton Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
Clear Light,
The Gap Band,
Anakelly,
The Happenings,
Index,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Surgeon,
Brand Nubian,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Intrusion,
Graham Central Station,
Pussy Galore,
Massinfluence,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Newcleus,
Swans,
Spoonie Gee,
Vainqueur,
Sällskapet,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.