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 Bangladesh and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
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 808 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 Von Mondo to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Gichy Dan,
Monolake,
Juan Atkins,
Girls At Our Best!,
In Retrospect,
Grauzone,
Rotary Connection,
Bootsy Collins,
the Human League,
Kayak,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronan,
Intrusion,
Wolf Eyes,
K-Klass,
Little Man,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
MC5,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Von Mondo,
Sandy B,
The Index,
X-101,
Graham Central Station,
The Fall,
Bad Manners,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tim Buckley,
Cecil Taylor,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ituana,
The Associates,
Joensuu 1685,
Depeche Mode,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Metal Thangz,
Hot Snakes,
New Age Steppers,
The Red Krayola,
The Dirtbombs,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slick Rick,
The Zeros,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Trojans,
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
The Offenders,
David McCallum,
Neil Young,
Terry Callier,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.