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 Russia and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare 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 Television to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s 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 Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Susan Cadogan,
Yazoo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gap Band,
Oblivians,
Barrington Levy,
Jandek,
Prince Buster,
Echospace,
Gang Green,
Groovy Waters,
The Remains,
Sam Rivers,
The Count Five,
Camberwell Now,
Von Mondo,
This Heat,
X-101,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
John Coltrane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Hoover,
Tubeway Army,
Lucky Dragons,
Morten Harket,
Pussy Galore,
Jesper Dahlback,
Organ,
The Names,
Icehouse,
Kaleidoscope,
Radiopuhelimet,
David McCallum,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joy Division,
The Seeds,
Essential Logic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Audionom,
Main Source,
The Invisible,
Easy Going,
Stereo Dub,
U.S. Maple,
Intrusion,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tears for Fears,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pretty Things,
The Mummies,
The Modern Lovers,
Oneida,
Fad Gadget,
Jeff Mills,
The Kinks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.