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 Estonia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Half Japanese to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Skarface,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terry Callier,
Clear Light,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Smoke,
ABC,
Blancmange,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stockholm Monsters,
In Retrospect,
Donald Byrd,
Tim Buckley,
Joey Negro,
Ohio Players,
Magma,
T.S.O.L.,
Joyce Sims,
Lalann,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Country Teasers,
the Association,
Johnny Clarke,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Motions,
Joe Smooth,
The Leaves,
Excepter,
Robert Hood,
Flipper,
Eric Copeland,
Index,
The Dave Clark Five,
Livin' Joy,
Altered Images,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lee Hazlewood,
Subhumans,
Saccharine Trust,
Throbbing Gristle,
Arab on Radar,
Trumans Water,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci,
Suicide,
Harry Pussy,
Depeche Mode,
Banda Bassotti,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lightning Bolt,
LL Cool J,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minutemen,
PIL,
The Busters,
The Blues Magoos,
Patti Smith,
Wolf Eyes,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.