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 Poland and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 David Axelrod to the disco 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Blancmange,
Depeche Mode,
Iggy Pop,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Popol Vuh,
Hoover,
The Martian,
Nik Kershaw,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Parry Music,
Todd Rundgren,
Stetsasonic,
The Happenings,
D'Angelo,
Ten City,
Radio Birdman,
The Raincoats,
Neil Young,
Loose Ends,
Supertramp,
Rekid,
John Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Swell Maps,
Accadde A,
Barbara Tucker,
John Cale,
Hashim,
Byron Stingily,
Amazonics,
Robert Hood,
Negative Approach,
Pierre Henry,
The Smiths,
Gang Green,
Maurizio,
kango's stein massive,
The Cowsills,
Sonny Sharrock,
Patti Smith,
Jacques Brel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxette,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marshall Jefferson,
JFA,
Little Man,
Ponytail,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Halsall,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Delta 5,
Intrusion,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick Morgan,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.