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 Philippines and from Accra.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 MC5 to the grime 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Magma,
Gastr Del Sol,
R.M.O.,
Quantec,
Eli Mardock,
Los Fastidios,
Colin Newman,
Grauzone,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Litter,
Vainqueur,
Joy Division,
June of 44,
The Kinks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
Scientists,
Minny Pops,
Moss Icon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amon Düül,
Mars,
Grandmaster Flash,
One Last Wish,
Pulsallama,
New York Dolls,
Donny Hathaway,
Rekid,
John Cale,
Mandrill,
Trumans Water,
Young Marble Giants,
June Days,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bang On A Can,
The Raincoats,
Don Cherry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Germs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Average White Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
Y Pants,
Kas Product,
The Beau Brummels,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Martian,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bill Wells,
The Wake,
Animal Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Public Enemy,
The Durutti Column,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brand Nubian,
Lightning Bolt,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.