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 Armenia and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 James White and The Blacks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Metal Thangz,
Ten City,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
David McCallum,
The Slackers,
Mad Mike,
A Certain Ratio,
The Walker Brothers,
Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grauzone,
the Fania All-Stars,
Delon & Dalcan,
Donald Byrd,
The Barracudas,
Ronan,
Joe Finger,
Yusef Lateef,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yaz,
John Lydon,
cv313,
Royal Trux,
Infiniti,
Lindisfarne,
Aloha Tigers,
Alice Coltrane,
Thee Headcoats,
Morten Harket,
Subhumans,
Basic Channel,
Danielle Patucci,
Charles Mingus,
Visage,
Model 500,
Black Pus,
The Techniques,
Stiv Bators,
The Sonics,
Pantytec,
Joensuu 1685,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scrapy,
The Trojans,
Laurel Aitken,
Franke,
Don Cherry,
The Pop Group,
PIL,
Dennis Brown,
Marshall Jefferson,
David Bowie,
Bad Manners,
Audionom,
Josef K,
Bluetip,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New York Dolls,
Mandrill,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.