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 Peru and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DJ Style to the grunge 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Blake Baxter,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sarah Menescal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Erasure,
Brand Nubian,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Evens,
Juan Atkins,
Joensuu 1685,
Porter Ricks,
Eli Mardock,
CMW,
MDC,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lakeside,
Skarface,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jerry's Kids,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fuzztones,
Roy Ayers,
Aloha Tigers,
Subhumans,
Los Fastidios,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Flesh Eaters,
DJ Style,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q65,
The Birthday Party,
Index,
Mission of Burma,
48th St. Collective,
Pylon,
AZ,
Brick,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Residents,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
The Smoke,
Spoonie Gee,
Aural Exciters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Black Bananas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Duran Duran,
Ituana,
Bobby Sherman,
Mo-Dettes,
Popol Vuh,
PIL,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sun Ra,
Khruangbin,
Pussy Galore,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lindisfarne,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.