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 Djibouti 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Swell Maps 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Scott Walker,
Andrew Hill,
Fluxion,
The Vogues,
The Smoke,
The Detroit Cobras,
Joyce Sims,
Archie Shepp,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Charles Mingus,
Freddie Wadling,
Livin' Joy,
Buzzcocks,
Moss Icon,
JFA,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
10cc,
Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Swell Maps,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Black Dice,
Reuben Wilson,
Rufus Thomas,
Monolake,
Barbara Tucker,
Radio Birdman,
The Real Kids,
Janne Schatter,
Johnny Clarke,
Reagan Youth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Soft Cell,
The Toasters,
Heaven 17,
Main Source,
Chrome,
Animal Collective,
Tommy Roe,
The Monochrome Set,
Erykah Badu,
Jerry's Kids,
The Doors,
Barrington Levy,
Franke,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Black Sheep,
Judy Mowatt,
John Cale,
Yaz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jimmy McGriff,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Quando Quango,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Germs,
Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin.
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.