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 Norway and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Whodini to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
Kaleidoscope,
CMW,
Make Up,
Minor Threat,
Animal Collective,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Arthur Verocai,
Royal Trux,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Neon Judgement,
Marvin Gaye,
Dave Gahan,
Nik Kershaw,
Guru Guru,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
EPMD,
Mission of Burma,
Unwound,
Yaz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Delta 5,
Albert Ayler,
The Alarm Clocks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mantronix,
Severed Heads,
MDC,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Procol Harum,
Agitation Free,
Eric B and Rakim,
Liliput,
Lungfish,
Oblivians,
The Doobie Brothers,
Archie Shepp,
Average White Band,
Aural Exciters,
Boz Scaggs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vainqueur,
Adolescents,
Scan 7,
Scott Walker,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alton Ellis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Stooges,
Gabor Szabo,
Thee Headcoats,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Normal,
The Gories,
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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.