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 Mexico and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 marimba 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 Agent Orange to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Divine Comedy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camouflage,
The Monochrome Set,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Music Machine,
Oblivians,
Monks,
Fear,
Circle Jerks,
Kas Product,
Fad Gadget,
The Evens,
Ten City,
a-ha,
The United States of America,
Angry Samoans,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cramps,
Alton Ellis,
Can,
Donald Byrd,
The Victims,
World's Most,
La Düsseldorf,
Fugazi,
Joy Division,
Roxy Music,
Sandy B,
Eric Dolphy,
The Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
Deepchord,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Normal,
The Durutti Column,
Jeru the Damaja,
Scrapy,
The Moody Blues,
Nils Olav,
Barclay James Harvest,
Schoolly D,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric Copeland,
New Age Steppers,
Steve Hackett,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
Vladislav Delay,
The Velvet Underground,
Donny Hathaway,
Stetsasonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Motions,
Loose Ends,
the Germs,
Soft Machine,
Porter Ricks,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.