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 Macedonia and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Excepter 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
The Selecter,
Nico,
Index,
Zapp,
Blake Baxter,
Excepter,
DJ Style,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
World's Most,
Brass Construction,
Suicide,
Sex Pistols,
Mandrill,
Lou Christie,
The Pop Group,
D'Angelo,
Lalann,
Das Ding,
Rufus Thomas,
Animal Collective,
Popol Vuh,
Jacques Brel,
Sound Behaviour,
The Monks,
Gichy Dan,
Bad Manners,
Duran Duran,
Icehouse,
Pussy Galore,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
Fat Boys,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Severed Heads,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dual Sessions,
The Mojo Men,
Bluetip,
The Happenings,
Godley & Creme,
Sun Ra,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alison Limerick,
Bang On A Can,
Skaos,
The Martian,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Public Enemy,
The Move,
Rosa Yemen,
Aural Exciters,
Fluxion,
Johnny Clarke,
Fear,
Basic Channel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Essential Logic,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.