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 Japan and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eric Copeland to the electroclash 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soft Machine,
Sonic Youth,
JFA,
R.M.O.,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Slits,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Anakelly,
Crash Course in Science,
Ronan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gil Scott Heron,
Isaac Hayes,
Surgeon,
Ultra Naté,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Trojans,
Black Pus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Glenn Branca,
Tears for Fears,
Oblivians,
The Moody Blues,
Donny Hathaway,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Misunderstood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxette,
Mantronix,
Henry Cow,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Sound,
Amon Düül II,
Deakin,
Youth Brigade,
The Toasters,
Basic Channel,
The Tremeloes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ronnie Foster,
Visage,
Lindisfarne,
Vladislav Delay,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Fania All-Stars,
DJ Sneak,
Fad Gadget,
Camouflage,
Minutemen,
Drexciya,
The Young Rascals,
Scott Walker,
The Walker Brothers,
Lyres,
Circle Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jandek,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.