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 Armenia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Easy Going to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Guru Guru,
Neil Young,
Rufus Thomas,
Monks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Silicon Teens,
Magazine,
The Remains,
Funky Four + One,
Crash Course in Science,
Clear Light,
Bad Manners,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cramps,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erykah Badu,
Eli Mardock,
The Count Five,
Chrome,
Smog,
The Stooges,
Procol Harum,
The Music Machine,
U.S. Maple,
Ludus,
Susan Cadogan,
Fluxion,
Circle Jerks,
Steve Hackett,
Kaleidoscope,
The Grass Roots,
A Certain Ratio,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cure,
Simply Red,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Schoolly D,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Easy Going,
Tubeway Army,
Deadbeat,
Trumans Water,
The Buckinghams,
David Bowie,
Tim Buckley,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Hill,
Tom Boy,
Bronski Beat,
E-Dancer,
Mad Mike,
The Five Americans,
Lungfish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Donald Byrd,
The Barracudas,
Duran Duran,
Sparks,
Lou Christie,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.