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 Czech Republic and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Raincoats to the jazz 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hardrive,
Marvin Gaye,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ossler,
Moebius,
David McCallum,
Barbara Tucker,
Jerry's Kids,
Nirvana,
Newcleus,
ABC,
The Sound,
Symarip,
Cal Tjader,
The Moleskins,
Liliput,
The Last Poets,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sonics,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soft Machine,
Metal Thangz,
Magazine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suburban Knight,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Copeland,
Flamin' Groovies,
Harmonia,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fortunes,
Babytalk,
Terry Callier,
Cheater Slicks,
Boz Scaggs,
Y Pants,
The Music Machine,
Kayak,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Pop Group,
The Doobie Brothers,
Icehouse,
The Cramps,
Barrington Levy,
The Standells,
Eric Dolphy,
Flipper,
Adolescents,
The Gap Band,
Magma,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.