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 Zambia and from London.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 CMW to the dance 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Johnny Clarke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Vainqueur,
Sam Rivers,
Slick Rick,
Traffic Nightmare,
Depeche Mode,
Silicon Teens,
Underground Resistance,
Juan Atkins,
Visage,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Erasure,
Howard Jones,
The Blackbyrds,
Sound Behaviour,
Nico,
Au Pairs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bill Near,
Moby Grape,
Bad Manners,
Sarah Menescal,
The Gories,
Lower 48,
Royal Trux,
Ronan,
Marmalade,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soulsonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
Nils Olav,
Whodini,
Zapp,
Lou Reed,
Radiopuhelimet,
Popol Vuh,
Leonard Cohen,
Minnie Riperton,
Little Man,
Glenn Branca,
Althea and Donna,
the Swans,
The Zeros,
Parry Music,
Absolute Body Control,
Steve Hackett,
Byron Stingily,
Brothers Johnson,
Circle Jerks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roxette,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fat Boys,
Davy DMX,
Minutemen,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.