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 Colombia and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Desert Stars to the grunge 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Scion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxy Music,
Neu!,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joe Smooth,
Roy Ayers,
Trumans Water,
Johnny Clarke,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sound Behaviour,
Tom Boy,
Banda Bassotti,
Organ,
Harpers Bizarre,
Talk Talk,
The Raincoats,
Eurythmics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
H. Thieme,
Sam Rivers,
Gong,
Donald Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra,
Absolute Body Control,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Anthony Braxton,
Terry Callier,
Monolake,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Wake,
Los Fastidios,
Cameo,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cramps,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fortunes,
Derrick Morgan,
Junior Murvin,
Todd Rundgren,
Fat Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
F. McDonald,
Hashim,
The New Christs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sight & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Bill Near,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Skatalites,
Roxette,
Khruangbin,
Alison Limerick,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.