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 Malaysia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nils Olav to the techno 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Vogues,
Davy DMX,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Sheep,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erasure,
Bad Manners,
The Dead C,
Roy Ayers,
The Gun Club,
The Saints,
Bill Wells,
Thompson Twins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
cv313,
Organ,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Last Poets,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Iggy Pop,
Angry Samoans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Buckinghams,
Stetsasonic,
Warren Ellis,
Albert Ayler,
Funkadelic,
Eden Ahbez,
OOIOO,
Saccharine Trust,
Peter & Gordon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Litter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Johnny Clarke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Flash Fearless,
Scott Walker,
Excepter,
Alton Ellis,
Jandek,
Electric Prunes,
DJ Sneak,
the Sonics,
Mantronix,
The Skatalites,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dead Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joe Finger,
Toni Rubio,
the Fania All-Stars,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Bananas,
Roger Hodgson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.