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 India 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
The Skatalites,
Malaria!,
Dark Day,
Agent Orange,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharoah Sanders,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jandek,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Standells,
Cecil Taylor,
Ludus,
Mad Mike,
8 Eyed Spy,
Erasure,
Vladislav Delay,
Aswad,
Flipper,
Max Romeo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Model 500,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gil Scott Heron,
Severed Heads,
Boz Scaggs,
Interpol,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Near,
Theoretical Girls,
Eddi Front,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
Flash Fearless,
Sight & Sound,
Newcleus,
Eli Mardock,
ABBA,
Supertramp,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yusef Lateef,
Loose Ends,
Accadde A,
Letta Mbulu,
Iggy Pop,
Bootsy Collins,
Black Moon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crime,
Half Japanese,
The Electric Prunes,
The Blues Magoos,
Fatback Band,
The Trojans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Reuben Wilson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
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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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.