The Edie Effect

from Contender by Lach

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"The lead off track of my very first album! It all started with a different title I had floating around "The Victoria Principal". I figured it'd be a song about aliens coming to earth and turning everybody into air-headed models (I've since discovered that Ms. Principal is actually a very smart and talented woman.) Anyway, around that time I was reading about Edie Sedgewick the Warhol superstar and noticing all the East Village girls copping that look. So, out with Victoria and in with Edie and the song was born." - Lach

lyrics

Well, you describe the girl by what she wears
From her jet black tights to her platinum hair
From her hula-hoop earrings to her miniskirt
From her Keith Haring bracelet to her paisley shirt
Well, have you seen her in the latest media shower
Yeah, she be posing at some party with Andy Whorewall flower
Well, there are twenty at least on any New York bar
Waiting for someone to make them a star
I say, “Ha!”
That's the Edie effect
It takes no intellect
Just get an image and project
Life is a disco tech
On daddy's paycheck
So, what the heck
Stay permanently wrecked
Yeah, doing the Edie Effect
Hey that’s the Edie Effect
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You know what I mean boy
I see her everyday
She’s walking down Avenue A
She’s a mystery
(But I don’t like mysteries)
She looks so fine to me
Watch her shake
Yeah, I like the way she shakes
Shake it up
Come here girl
Yeah, yeah, yeah
The Edie effect

credits

from Contender, released April 17, 2015
Lach - acoustic guitar, vocals
Jon Berger - drums
Norman England - electric guitar, Keys
Geoff Notkin - bass

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis ... more

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