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 Bangladesh and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Pagans,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sex Pistols,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Severed Heads,
The Cramps,
David McCallum,
Scion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
The Real Kids,
Isaac Hayes,
The Music Machine,
Agent Orange,
8 Eyed Spy,
These Immortal Souls,
Brothers Johnson,
Young Marble Giants,
the Association,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rekid,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Wolf Eyes,
Kaleidoscope,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Victims,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Glambeats Corp.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Q65,
China Crisis,
Idris Muhammad,
Buzzcocks,
Television Personalities,
Dave Gahan,
Adolescents,
The Mummies,
Gong,
Gil Scott Heron,
Panda Bear,
John Lydon,
Con Funk Shun,
Amon Düül II,
Traffic Nightmare,
Faust,
Liliput,
Malaria!,
David Axelrod,
Reuben Wilson,
Magazine,
The Blackbyrds,
Zapp,
The Moleskins,
48th St. Collective,
David Bowie,
Tim Buckley,
Wire,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.