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 Norway and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
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 harpsichord 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 The Men They Couldn't Hang to the rap 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Joyce Sims,
Crispian St. Peters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Adolescents,
The Invisible,
The Last Poets,
Jerry's Kids,
a-ha,
Sound Behaviour,
Section 25,
Mandrill,
Y Pants,
The Gladiators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Procol Harum,
Roxette,
Flipper,
Bauhaus,
Underground Resistance,
Talk Talk,
Funky Four + One,
The Associates,
Sight & Sound,
Cecil Taylor,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Searchers,
Boredoms,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Moon,
The Monks,
Moss Icon,
Dark Day,
The Residents,
The Star Department,
Rotary Connection,
The Pretty Things,
The Mojo Men,
The Velvet Underground,
Q and Not U,
The Electric Prunes,
Nils Olav,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scion,
Tom Boy,
Deadbeat,
Chrome,
Carl Craig,
The Count Five,
The Standells,
Minny Pops,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pere Ubu,
the Slits,
Slave,
Delta 5,
Camouflage,
Goldenarms,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.