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 Paraguay and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pulsallama to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Kas Product,
Scott Walker,
Erykah Badu,
Panda Bear,
OOIOO,
the Normal,
Smog,
Todd Terry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Prince Buster,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Fraelich,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Offenders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Judy Mowatt,
Animal Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rod Modell,
Trumans Water,
Black Moon,
Thee Headcoats,
Piero Umiliani,
Matthew Halsall,
Television Personalities,
Sällskapet,
Isaac Hayes,
Young Marble Giants,
Arcadia,
Kerri Chandler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Electric Prunes,
Blake Baxter,
Donny Hathaway,
Glenn Branca,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
H. Thieme,
Roxette,
Electric Prunes,
Pierre Henry,
Avey Tare,
June Days,
Subhumans,
Franke,
The Divine Comedy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lalann,
Qualms,
Drive Like Jehu,
a-ha,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ten City,
Sarah Menescal,
Schoolly D,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.