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 Tanzania and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 jazz 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Liliput,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vladislav Delay,
Tom Boy,
Faraquet,
Sight & Sound,
Whodini,
Sonic Youth,
Simply Red,
Anthony Braxton,
The Stooges,
Marshall Jefferson,
Y Pants,
Kenny Larkin,
Jacob Miller,
JFA,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cluster,
Zero Boys,
the Association,
F. McDonald,
Lakeside,
Kool Moe Dee,
Heaven 17,
Tropical Tobacco,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
Isaac Hayes,
Alton Ellis,
Icehouse,
The Misunderstood,
John Holt,
Henry Cow,
Ponytail,
Scrapy,
Moss Icon,
Ice-T,
EPMD,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fat Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Byrd,
Deepchord,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ituana,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Davy DMX,
Toni Rubio,
Scan 7,
The Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warren Ellis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bobby Womack,
Electric Light Orchestra,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.