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 Mauritius and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Faust to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Qualms,
The Searchers,
F. McDonald,
Eurythmics,
the Fania All-Stars,
Althea and Donna,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barbara Tucker,
Soulsonic Force,
The Saints,
Funkadelic,
Bronski Beat,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Pop Group,
John Coltrane,
Bob Dylan,
The Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
T.S.O.L.,
Mars,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skaos,
The Standells,
the Association,
Donald Byrd,
The Fortunes,
Tim Buckley,
The Velvet Underground,
Eddi Front,
Animal Collective,
Idris Muhammad,
cv313,
Los Fastidios,
Cal Tjader,
PIL,
Zero Boys,
Country Teasers,
Patti Smith,
FM Einheit,
Godley & Creme,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sight & Sound,
Sam Rivers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-102,
Lyres,
48th St. Collective,
Hoover,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
Gang Starr,
Henry Cow,
10cc,
Ohio Players,
Soft Machine,
Goldenarms,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.