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 Uruguay and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Johannesburg.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Young Rascals to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
One Last Wish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
In Retrospect,
Jerry's Kids,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Zeros,
Eli Mardock,
DNA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Warsaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Monochrome Set,
Kayak,
Khruangbin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ludus,
Joensuu 1685,
Subhumans,
Mantronix,
The American Breed,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eden Ahbez,
Tom Boy,
Yellowson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Michelle Simonal,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boz Scaggs,
Magma,
U.S. Maple,
Stiv Bators,
The Searchers,
Roxette,
Swell Maps,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Avey Tare,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Stetsasonic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Steve Hackett,
Moss Icon,
Anthony Braxton,
Dorothy Ashby,
Carl Craig,
Jacques Brel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cameo,
The Index,
The Shadows of Knight,
Delta 5,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Freddie Wadling,
Yazoo,
China Crisis,
X-102,
the Swans,
Archie Shepp,
Charles Mingus,
John Cale,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.