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 Oman and from Hong Kong.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes 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 Yaz to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Derrick Morgan,
Panda Bear,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gong,
Pole,
Kevin Saunderson,
Urselle,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Babytalk,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tom Boy,
Magazine,
Hashim,
Public Enemy,
Kurtis Blow,
Minny Pops,
Symarip,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Banda Bassotti,
Livin' Joy,
The Black Dice,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Count Five,
48th St. Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jerry's Kids,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sex Pistols,
10cc,
China Crisis,
Newcleus,
Funkadelic,
Underground Resistance,
Eurythmics,
Metal Thangz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cymande,
The Happenings,
Archie Shepp,
Harmonia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Flesh Eaters,
Slave,
MDC,
The Red Krayola,
The Knickerbockers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Television Personalities,
The Raincoats,
Barry Ungar,
DJ Sneak,
The Birthday Party,
Pierre Henry,
Agent Orange,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Heaven 17,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.