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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
The Skatalites,
Rapeman,
Joey Negro,
The Saints,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Star Department,
Dark Day,
Judy Mowatt,
Quadrant,
Godley & Creme,
Boredoms,
Jacob Miller,
The Trojans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Velvet Underground,
Nick Fraelich,
Marvin Gaye,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Victims,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Evens,
Harmonia,
Man Parrish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Barracudas,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-102,
Maurizio,
Liliput,
Lou Christie,
JFA,
Sam Rivers,
Kenny Larkin,
Moebius,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Steve Hackett,
Lebanon Hanover,
Intrusion,
Eurythmics,
Gastr Del Sol,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Brass Construction,
Erasure,
Main Source,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Grass Roots,
The Golliwogs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Association,
Althea and Donna,
Flipper,
Roger Hodgson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deakin,
Index,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.