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 Hungary and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Essential Logic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Nick Fraelich,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Boz Scaggs,
Blancmange,
Yaz,
T. Rex,
Zapp,
Ornette Coleman,
Jeff Lynne,
The Blackbyrds,
Joy Division,
The Modern Lovers,
The Evens,
Marcia Griffiths,
Anakelly,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sällskapet,
Isaac Hayes,
Television Personalities,
The Tremeloes,
Flash Fearless,
Parry Music,
Groovy Waters,
Chris & Cosey,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Easy Going,
The Move,
Marmalade,
Monolake,
Fugazi,
Harry Pussy,
Sonic Youth,
cv313,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Names,
Flipper,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Reuben Wilson,
Blake Baxter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Q and Not U,
The Angels of Light,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fire Engines,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kool Moe Dee,
Glenn Branca,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
James White and The Blacks,
Kenny Larkin,
H. Thieme,
Interpol,
Vladislav Delay,
The Neon Judgement,
Funky Four + One,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.