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 San Marino and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
the Sonics,
Moebius,
Judy Mowatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxette,
Easy Going,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mad Mike,
Marvin Gaye,
Royal Trux,
Anakelly,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Knickerbockers,
Deakin,
Mars,
Pussy Galore,
FM Einheit,
Unwound,
Terry Callier,
Susan Cadogan,
Rotary Connection,
Sun City Girls,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang of Four,
The Doors,
Vladislav Delay,
Arab on Radar,
Graham Central Station,
Chris & Cosey,
Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Brass Construction,
Ornette Coleman,
Soft Machine,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gichy Dan,
Albert Ayler,
Crash Course in Science,
The Busters,
The Buckinghams,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eddi Front,
The Golliwogs,
Pantytec,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
B.T. Express,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moby Grape,
The Wake,
LL Cool J,
Guru Guru,
The Tremeloes,
Minny Pops,
The Fugs,
Peter & Gordon,
Neu!,
Yusef Lateef,
A Certain Ratio,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.