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 Costa Rica 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet 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 Pulsallama to the electroclash 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Janne Schatter,
Sixth Finger,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swell Maps,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lyres,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mandrill,
Roxette,
Juan Atkins,
Avey Tare,
Jacob Miller,
Basic Channel,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blackbyrds,
Soulsonic Force,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cramps,
The Moleskins,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Sherman,
Icehouse,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Zapp,
The Mummies,
Mark Hollis,
The Slits,
Radiohead,
Absolute Body Control,
Silicon Teens,
Rufus Thomas,
Skaos,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Simply Red,
X-101,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hoover,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Andrew Hill,
Kayak,
Blancmange,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brass Construction,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Flash Fearless,
Anthony Braxton,
Hasil Adkins,
The Trojans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gong,
Amon Düül II,
Barrington Levy,
Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.