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 Lebanon and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar 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 Moss Icon to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Mandrill,
Swans,
Desert Stars,
MDC,
Sixth Finger,
cv313,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cal Tjader,
Rosa Yemen,
Man Parrish,
ABBA,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
Junior Murvin,
T. Rex,
Johnny Clarke,
Eve St. Jones,
Alphaville,
Ossler,
The Tremeloes,
The Monks,
Soft Machine,
Babytalk,
Soft Cell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Barbara Tucker,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Swell Maps,
Bill Near,
The Human League,
a-ha,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Little Man,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mad Mike,
Supertramp,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lakeside,
Davy DMX,
Ice-T,
Sarah Menescal,
Reuben Wilson,
CMW,
Crooked Eye,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Soft Cell,
Excepter,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Music Machine,
James White and The Blacks,
The Skatalites,
Piero Umiliani,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.