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 Montenegro and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ponytail to the disco 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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Camouflage,
Terry Callier,
a-ha,
Josef K,
Ronan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joey Negro,
Animal Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
Brass Construction,
The Saints,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Beau Brummels,
Technova,
Terrestrial Tones,
Chris & Cosey,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dawn Penn,
Nick Fraelich,
Andrew Hill,
Youth Brigade,
Kayak,
Livin' Joy,
Fluxion,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brand Nubian,
Girls At Our Best!,
Faust,
Swans,
The Cramps,
The Velvet Underground,
Idris Muhammad,
Y Pants,
Bobby Sherman,
Drexciya,
The Fire Engines,
The Walker Brothers,
Visage,
Can,
Magazine,
Jawbox,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Zeros,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Wake,
Roxy Music,
The Slits,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Todd Rundgren,
the Sonics,
Rakim,
Ludus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pylon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Neon Judgement,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.