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 Liberia and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 New Christs to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Joy Division,
Warren Ellis,
Amon Düül,
Hashim,
Marvin Gaye,
Tubeway Army,
Faraquet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fat Boys,
Blossom Toes,
UT,
Boredoms,
Althea and Donna,
Sarah Menescal,
The United States of America,
Crooked Eye,
China Crisis,
Rekid,
The Neon Judgement,
cv313,
DJ Sneak,
The Toasters,
Flash Fearless,
The Techniques,
The Busters,
EPMD,
Theoretical Girls,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Q and Not U,
Severed Heads,
Terry Callier,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Zeros,
Slick Rick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
These Immortal Souls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fear,
Camberwell Now,
Jacob Miller,
Goldenarms,
Derrick May,
Kas Product,
The Barracudas,
Patti Smith,
Yellowson,
Jeff Lynne,
The Misunderstood,
Crime,
New Age Steppers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soul II Soul,
Accadde A,
The Blues Magoos,
The Litter,
Eli Mardock,
Man Parrish,
Junior Murvin,
Tomorrow,
Robert Hood,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.