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 Lebanon and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sandy B to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soul II Soul,
The Barracudas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Schoolly D,
ABBA,
The Fall,
Lou Reed,
Icehouse,
Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels,
OOIOO,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Qualms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Babytalk,
Heaven 17,
Outsiders,
Fat Boys,
Motorama,
Scan 7,
The Skatalites,
Funky Four + One,
Nas,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DNA,
The Wake,
Rites of Spring,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gil Scott Heron,
kango's stein massive,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Christie,
Liliput,
The Gories,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Negative Approach,
Nils Olav,
Basic Channel,
Excepter,
The Knickerbockers,
Alison Limerick,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Robert Wyatt,
Archie Shepp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Smog,
Von Mondo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Absolute Body Control,
The Cramps,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Doors,
Bluetip,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.