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 Brazil and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the dance 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '90s.
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 Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Depeche Mode,
Q65,
Ice-T,
Sandy B,
Los Fastidios,
Sight & Sound,
Babytalk,
Robert Wyatt,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sugar Minott,
T. Rex,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Godley & Creme,
Flamin' Groovies,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Parry Music,
Scan 7,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bill Near,
John Foxx,
Man Eating Sloth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Danielle Patucci,
The Moleskins,
Barbara Tucker,
Rotary Connection,
Excepter,
Minor Threat,
Brothers Johnson,
Royal Trux,
Model 500,
Liliput,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mark Hollis,
Todd Terry,
The Offenders,
Gong,
Spandau Ballet,
David Bowie,
cv313,
The Mojo Men,
The Durutti Column,
Wally Richardson,
Blake Baxter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camouflage,
Soft Cell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Judy Mowatt,
Funky Four + One,
Minnie Riperton,
Aloha Tigers,
New Order,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Hood,
China Crisis,
Lower 48,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.