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 Turkmenistan and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ponytail to the rock 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Spoonie Gee,
Quantec,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amon Düül,
Icehouse,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Magazine,
Yazoo,
the Normal,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Reuben Wilson,
Ponytail,
The Golliwogs,
Main Source,
The Young Rascals,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blake Baxter,
The Blues Magoos,
June of 44,
FM Einheit,
Underground Resistance,
the Association,
The Raincoats,
The American Breed,
The Count Five,
E-Dancer,
Niagra,
Model 500,
Wasted Youth,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dorothy Ashby,
Dead Boys,
Peter & Gordon,
The Barracudas,
Jacob Miller,
Moss Icon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang Green,
Magma,
Flipper,
Oneida,
Yusef Lateef,
Can,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Red Krayola,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Make Up,
Althea and Donna,
B.T. Express,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pantytec,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lalann,
Technova,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Detroit Cobras,
Little Man,
Schoolly D,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.