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 Lithuania and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
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 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 Kerri Chandler to the techno 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Deepchord,
Nirvana,
Reagan Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pylon,
Sugar Minott,
Sexual Harrassment,
Suburban Knight,
Masters at Work,
Parry Music,
Ten City,
Q and Not U,
Alice Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
Rakim,
Icehouse,
Motorama,
Talk Talk,
Rufus Thomas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABBA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Severed Heads,
Matthew Bourne,
Neu!,
Visage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Max Romeo,
Sister Nancy,
Deakin,
John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
Danielle Patucci,
The Trojans,
Magazine,
Yazoo,
Don Cherry,
Groovy Waters,
Silicon Teens,
Roxette,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lyres,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Christie,
Cybotron,
Harry Pussy,
The Modern Lovers,
Sound Behaviour,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Porter Ricks,
Joe Smooth,
kango's stein massive,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Althea and Donna,
Banda Bassotti,
Pagans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rites of Spring,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.