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 London.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar 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 Bill Wells to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
This Heat,
Sparks,
Faust,
The Dave Clark Five,
Danielle Patucci,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nik Kershaw,
The Beau Brummels,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Robert Wyatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
T.S.O.L.,
Pylon,
Lower 48,
The Saints,
Mark Hollis,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Robert Hood,
Dual Sessions,
Piero Umiliani,
Panda Bear,
Brass Construction,
Organ,
Letta Mbulu,
Ponytail,
Massinfluence,
Supertramp,
Bronski Beat,
Gabor Szabo,
Lalann,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Wake,
Soul II Soul,
Charles Mingus,
The Fortunes,
Max Romeo,
Yellowson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Suburban Knight,
Black Moon,
FM Einheit,
Subhumans,
Henry Cow,
Josef K,
The Gap Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gang Gang Dance,
Funky Four + One,
DNA,
Swans,
Japan,
MDC,
Das Ding,
Franke,
The Tremeloes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Golliwogs,
The Litter,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.