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 El Salvador and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Thee Headcoats to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
The Vogues,
Tropical Tobacco,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-Ray Spex,
Letta Mbulu,
Brand Nubian,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Arthur Verocai,
Kurtis Blow,
The Leaves,
Smog,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neu!,
the Bar-Kays,
Cheater Slicks,
Eli Mardock,
Tom Boy,
Yazoo,
Ohio Players,
Fela Kuti,
Mandrill,
Lucky Dragons,
Sparks,
Average White Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Quando Quango,
Zero Boys,
David McCallum,
This Heat,
The Searchers,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang of Four,
Kas Product,
The Stooges,
The Evens,
The Golliwogs,
Pierre Henry,
48th St. Collective,
Aswad,
Matthew Bourne,
D'Angelo,
Mars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alice Coltrane,
the Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scion,
Sarah Menescal,
Magma,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
June Days,
Qualms,
Electric Prunes,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.