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 El Salvador and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rotary Connection to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Soft Machine,
Leonard Cohen,
Sandy B,
Derrick May,
The American Breed,
Henry Cow,
Altered Images,
Qualms,
Boz Scaggs,
The Moleskins,
Rites of Spring,
Roxy Music,
Arcadia,
The Kinks,
Das Ding,
Main Source,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lungfish,
Kas Product,
Television,
Agitation Free,
Johnny Osbourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Crime,
Marine Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
Rufus Thomas,
Godley & Creme,
Visage,
Crooked Eye,
La Düsseldorf,
Basic Channel,
Delta 5,
Yellowson,
Yazoo,
Pagans,
Q65,
Sam Rivers,
New York Dolls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Royal Trux,
Silicon Teens,
Schoolly D,
Peter & Gordon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Stetsasonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ornette Coleman,
The Golliwogs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Patti Smith,
Juan Atkins,
Malaria!,
Jeff Lynne,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Görl,
Country Teasers,
The Leaves,
Kerri Chandler,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.