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 China and from London.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum 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 Joe Smooth to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Pus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Mandrill,
The Black Dice,
Donny Hathaway,
Maurizio,
Mary Jane Girls,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fall,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sixth Finger,
Gang Green,
The Move,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Walker Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
AZ,
Depeche Mode,
Vainqueur,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Human League,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Gun Club,
China Crisis,
Johnny Clarke,
Rakim,
the Soft Cell,
Tom Boy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Womack,
Mars,
JFA,
Malaria!,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Coltrane,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Kinks,
Byron Stingily,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nation of Ulysses,
DJ Sneak,
Silicon Teens,
Monolake,
Livin' Joy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eli Mardock,
Nico,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.