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 Montenegro and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hasil Adkins to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
The Doors,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Slackers,
The Stooges,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Saccharine Trust,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Vogues,
The Durutti Column,
Roy Ayers,
Sällskapet,
The American Breed,
Black Moon,
Funky Four + One,
Delta 5,
The United States of America,
Parry Music,
the Slits,
Fatback Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rotary Connection,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gories,
Matthew Bourne,
Cluster,
the Germs,
Pantaleimon,
Underground Resistance,
The J.B.'s,
Popol Vuh,
The Beau Brummels,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Sherman,
Bang On A Can,
Echospace,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Davy DMX,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Q and Not U,
Sam Rivers,
Spandau Ballet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jandek,
The Cure,
Japan,
Tim Buckley,
Laurel Aitken,
Ronnie Foster,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grey Daturas,
Reuben Wilson,
L. Decosne,
Black Flag,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Main Source,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.