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 Chile and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe 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 Marmalade to the crunk 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drexciya,
Alison Limerick,
Alton Ellis,
Rapeman,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Searchers,
Cameo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Organ,
Mantronix,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Funky Four + One,
Royal Trux,
Bauhaus,
John Lydon,
Michelle Simonal,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Loose Ends,
a-ha,
Second Layer,
Flash Fearless,
Public Enemy,
The Leaves,
Wings,
The New Christs,
Electric Prunes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scan 7,
Model 500,
Nick Fraelich,
Procol Harum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Mummies,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Sonics,
Hoover,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pole,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Germs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fugs,
The Fortunes,
Agitation Free,
Pere Ubu,
Supertramp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Angry Samoans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Moby Grape,
Ohio Players,
A Certain Ratio,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Red Krayola,
Laurel Aitken,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.