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 Sudan and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Main Source,
Can,
Ken Boothe,
Smog,
John Foxx,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Lydon,
Shuggie Otis,
Crash Course in Science,
Jacob Miller,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Christie,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tommy Roe,
The Velvet Underground,
These Immortal Souls,
Royal Trux,
Ossler,
Crime,
Anthony Braxton,
Au Pairs,
Guru Guru,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
Josef K,
The Doors,
Nirvana,
Sam Rivers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Procol Harum,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rekid,
Wire,
Average White Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gap Band,
R.M.O.,
Barry Ungar,
Cymande,
X-102,
Suburban Knight,
James White and The Blacks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deadbeat,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Womack,
Maurizio,
Roxette,
Zero Boys,
The Skatalites,
Ultravox,
The Techniques,
Adolescents,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Young Rascals,
The Residents,
Sex Pistols,
Cybotron,
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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.