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 Seychelles and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Quantec to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Cheater Slicks,
Fatback Band,
The Buckinghams,
Carl Craig,
Piero Umiliani,
Technova,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Con Funk Shun,
Animal Collective,
Juan Atkins,
Underground Resistance,
Mark Hollis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Vladislav Delay,
Blake Baxter,
Barry Ungar,
Quadrant,
X-Ray Spex,
The Fuzztones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Reuben Wilson,
Banda Bassotti,
Erykah Badu,
Rosa Yemen,
Angry Samoans,
Negative Approach,
Loose Ends,
Flipper,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alphaville,
Iggy Pop,
Deakin,
Groovy Waters,
FM Einheit,
Prince Buster,
Althea and Donna,
Henry Cow,
Dual Sessions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Leonard Cohen,
UT,
Soul Sonic Force,
ABC,
Public Image Ltd.,
Popol Vuh,
Suicide,
the Association,
The Cowsills,
Monks,
The American Breed,
The Mummies,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bill Near,
Absolute Body Control,
The Wake,
Television,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mars,
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.