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 Ethiopia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
The Dirtbombs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joe Finger,
Moby Grape,
Charles Mingus,
Banda Bassotti,
Das Ding,
Harpers Bizarre,
Roxy Music,
Yusef Lateef,
Simply Red,
Thompson Twins,
The Raincoats,
Spandau Ballet,
Yellowson,
X-101,
The Motions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Seeds,
Underground Resistance,
Scientists,
Absolute Body Control,
Blake Baxter,
the Germs,
Junior Murvin,
The Black Dice,
cv313,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cowsills,
Buzzcocks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bob Dylan,
Lee Hazlewood,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soulsonic Force,
Minor Threat,
Toni Rubio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Vladislav Delay,
Nirvana,
Livin' Joy,
The Pretty Things,
Peter & Gordon,
Rufus Thomas,
Model 500,
Scott Walker,
The Cure,
Judy Mowatt,
Maleditus Sound,
Susan Cadogan,
Agitation Free,
The Red Krayola,
DNA,
Rekid,
Archie Shepp,
New York Dolls,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.