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 Kazakhstan and from London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Move to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Second Layer,
Nico,
Gabor Szabo,
Dawn Penn,
The Saints,
Outsiders,
Wolf Eyes,
New Order,
Q and Not U,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Davy DMX,
Das Ding,
Glenn Branca,
The Trojans,
Deakin,
Duran Duran,
John Coltrane,
Michelle Simonal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Andrew Hill,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Easy Going,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Hood,
The Moleskins,
Rufus Thomas,
Hardrive,
David Bowie,
Marvin Gaye,
Marine Girls,
Janne Schatter,
The Invisible,
MC5,
Scott Walker,
Cybotron,
Pulsallama,
The Red Krayola,
Sonic Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grey Daturas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
48th St. Collective,
Joy Division,
K-Klass,
The Gap Band,
Kas Product,
Faraquet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Laurel Aitken,
Accadde A,
The Litter,
Vladislav Delay,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.