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 New Zealand and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Robert Palmer 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 Little Man to the disco 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Rotary Connection,
Moebius,
The Standells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
John Cale,
Crooked Eye,
Brothers Johnson,
Bauhaus,
X-Ray Spex,
Erykah Badu,
Bob Dylan,
PIL,
MC5,
Spoonie Gee,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Howard Jones,
Flash Fearless,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bootsy Collins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bush Tetras,
Cybotron,
Agent Orange,
the Bar-Kays,
Groovy Waters,
Trumans Water,
Ultravox,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soft Machine,
The Last Poets,
Todd Rundgren,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Simply Red,
Donald Byrd,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soul II Soul,
Marmalade,
Scan 7,
AZ,
The Monks,
Davy DMX,
Excepter,
The Golliwogs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skriet,
Sixth Finger,
Young Marble Giants,
Negative Approach,
Deadbeat,
Pole,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Charles Mingus,
Jeru the Damaja,
Whodini,
Das Ding,
The Human League,
Leonard Cohen,
Darondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terry Callier,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.