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 China and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 John Cale to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
The Invisible,
Drexciya,
Crispy Ambulance,
Agitation Free,
Stetsasonic,
the Bar-Kays,
Robert Görl,
The Techniques,
Black Moon,
Suburban Knight,
Khruangbin,
Black Flag,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Associates,
Rosa Yemen,
Matthew Halsall,
David McCallum,
The Saints,
Fela Kuti,
Erykah Badu,
Dorothy Ashby,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ultravox,
Monolake,
K-Klass,
The Slackers,
Piero Umiliani,
Kayak,
Supertramp,
Rakim,
DJ Style,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Parry Music,
Circle Jerks,
Andrew Hill,
Soulsonic Force,
Davy DMX,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Al Stewart,
Ronnie Foster,
Talk Talk,
Fluxion,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ten City,
Judy Mowatt,
Popol Vuh,
T.S.O.L.,
Vainqueur,
X-101,
Lalo Schifrin,
Radiohead,
Grauzone,
The Wake,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dirtbombs,
The Knickerbockers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
World's Most,
MDC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mo-Dettes,
The Searchers,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.