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 Djibouti and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Harmonia to the jazz 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pierre Henry,
Inner City,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Thee Headcoats,
Pantaleimon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scrapy,
D'Angelo,
The Moleskins,
Morten Harket,
Accadde A,
The Music Machine,
The Index,
Organ,
Maleditus Sound,
10cc,
48th St. Collective,
Dark Day,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Be Bop Deluxe,
Monolake,
Essential Logic,
Throbbing Gristle,
Section 25,
Intrusion,
Roy Ayers,
Animal Collective,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Saints,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ten City,
Absolute Body Control,
Ohio Players,
David McCallum,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Darondo,
Radiohead,
Judy Mowatt,
Panda Bear,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eden Ahbez,
Schoolly D,
Mr. Review,
Gong,
Erasure,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
Lindisfarne,
The Walker Brothers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Skarface,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Angry Samoans,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.