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 Eritrea and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Slick Rick to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Supertramp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobbi Humphrey,
La Düsseldorf,
MC5,
Dark Day,
The Wake,
Fugazi,
Tomorrow,
Nick Fraelich,
Make Up,
Moss Icon,
Lalo Schifrin,
June Days,
China Crisis,
Joensuu 1685,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Liliput,
Basic Channel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Silicon Teens,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flash Fearless,
The Vogues,
Jeff Mills,
Motorama,
Crooked Eye,
Ornette Coleman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Foxx,
Harmonia,
Sun Ra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Duran Duran,
Yellowson,
The Modern Lovers,
Ludus,
Wings,
Outsiders,
Stetsasonic,
a-ha,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rekid,
Big Daddy Kane,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Monks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Shoche,
MDC,
The Litter,
James White and The Blacks,
Babytalk,
The Names,
Livin' Joy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.