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 France and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 Boz Scaggs to the rock 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 The American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Funky Four + One,
JFA,
DNA,
Franke,
Livin' Joy,
Motorama,
The Remains,
Siglo XX,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Liliput,
Fat Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
Pagans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moss Icon,
Oblivians,
Fad Gadget,
Buzzcocks,
Massinfluence,
Newcleus,
Aural Exciters,
Erasure,
the Swans,
Fugazi,
The Index,
Patti Smith,
Barclay James Harvest,
Underground Resistance,
One Last Wish,
Lakeside,
the Germs,
Sonic Youth,
The Residents,
Ronnie Foster,
Cybotron,
Public Enemy,
X-101,
Metal Thangz,
Ornette Coleman,
Howard Jones,
Leonard Cohen,
Kool Moe Dee,
Roy Ayers,
Roger Hodgson,
Vladislav Delay,
Rufus Thomas,
Porter Ricks,
ABBA,
Wolf Eyes,
The Barracudas,
Danielle Patucci,
F. McDonald,
Michelle Simonal,
The Blackbyrds,
Pussy Galore,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mummies,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.