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 Somalia and from Jakarta.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Ronan to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Amon Düül II,
Peter and Kerry,
Hardrive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
Byron Stingily,
The Residents,
Trumans Water,
Pussy Galore,
China Crisis,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Wake,
Crime,
The Gladiators,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roxette,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tim Buckley,
Eric Dolphy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Leonard Cohen,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeff Lynne,
Delta 5,
Motorama,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quando Quango,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fugs,
Crooked Eye,
Tommy Roe,
Los Fastidios,
The Music Machine,
Tres Demented,
Faraquet,
Crash Course in Science,
Fela Kuti,
Donald Byrd,
Aural Exciters,
Wally Richardson,
Suicide,
The Star Department,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Intrusion,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Bronski Beat,
Ultra Naté,
Colin Newman,
Charles Mingus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ituana,
The Birthday Party,
Underground Resistance,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.