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 Syria and from Accra.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
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 güiro 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 Animal Collective to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Wire,
Pylon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Youth Brigade,
PIL,
Barrington Levy,
June Days,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hasil Adkins,
Joe Finger,
Morten Harket,
Animal Collective,
David McCallum,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Subhumans,
In Retrospect,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
The Saints,
Camouflage,
Alice Coltrane,
James White and The Blacks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marc Almond,
Loose Ends,
Pole,
Bootsy Collins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Procol Harum,
The Doors,
Minny Pops,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Hood,
Television Personalities,
Wally Richardson,
Stetsasonic,
Shuggie Otis,
X-Ray Spex,
Average White Band,
Nas,
Harpers Bizarre,
T.S.O.L.,
Circle Jerks,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
The Names,
Livin' Joy,
The Mojo Men,
Fatback Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Motorama,
Skarface,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Infiniti,
Erykah Badu,
Fugazi,
New Age Steppers,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.