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 Maldives and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
London Community Gospel Choir,
U.S. Maple,
Essential Logic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
Erykah Badu,
Television Personalities,
Gang of Four,
Banda Bassotti,
Crime,
Prince Buster,
Pussy Galore,
Mark Hollis,
Moebius,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fugazi,
Lebanon Hanover,
48th St. Collective,
The Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arcadia,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The J.B.'s,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeff Lynne,
The Motions,
Nils Olav,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Amazonics,
Agitation Free,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Young Marble Giants,
Scion,
Jawbox,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scientists,
Minny Pops,
The Divine Comedy,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed,
Scott Walker,
Soulsonic Force,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
New York Dolls,
Animal Collective,
Bill Wells,
Scratch Acid,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bob Dylan,
Sugar Minott,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gong,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.