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 Jamaica and from Toronto.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin 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 Gregory Isaacs to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tomorrow,
Steve Hackett,
Peter and Kerry,
The Angels of Light,
Joy Division,
Intrusion,
Blake Baxter,
The Young Rascals,
Moby Grape,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gories,
Ultimate Spinach,
Guru Guru,
Althea and Donna,
Junior Murvin,
Colin Newman,
Rakim,
The Remains,
Janne Schatter,
Rotary Connection,
Hashim,
Robert Hood,
Wally Richardson,
Ken Boothe,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ronan,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mantronix,
Wings,
Agent Orange,
The Move,
David Axelrod,
The Gap Band,
Agitation Free,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
Fela Kuti,
Brass Construction,
Monolake,
Little Man,
Wasted Youth,
Joey Negro,
Erasure,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pantaleimon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Davy DMX,
Cymande,
Kerrie Biddell,
U.S. Maple,
Funkadelic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Smoke,
Ponytail,
The Invisible,
Juan Atkins,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.