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 Ivory Coast and from Calgary.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Shoche to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ronan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nick Fraelich,
Pantytec,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Metal Thangz,
the Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Public Enemy,
Chrome,
The Skatalites,
The Neon Judgement,
Soft Machine,
Ultravox,
Moss Icon,
Supertramp,
David McCallum,
Prince Buster,
Slave,
The Barracudas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Banda Bassotti,
Hot Snakes,
Khruangbin,
Bang On A Can,
the Germs,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Five Americans,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Bar-Kays,
Oneida,
Marmalade,
Loose Ends,
Los Fastidios,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joensuu 1685,
Livin' Joy,
The Fall,
Negative Approach,
Basic Channel,
The Moody Blues,
Youth Brigade,
Fat Boys,
Boredoms,
The Smoke,
The Invisible,
Television Personalities,
Kayak,
Excepter,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Severed Heads,
Todd Terry,
The Black Dice,
F. McDonald,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.