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 Mali and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
F. McDonald,
Joy Division,
Outsiders,
The Black Dice,
Anthony Braxton,
Funkadelic,
Gabor Szabo,
Procol Harum,
Skarface,
Joensuu 1685,
Surgeon,
Groovy Waters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Accadde A,
Boredoms,
Soulsonic Force,
Tropical Tobacco,
U.S. Maple,
Black Sheep,
Altered Images,
Cecil Taylor,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
A Certain Ratio,
Pole,
Jandek,
Reagan Youth,
The Cramps,
John Coltrane,
B.T. Express,
Stetsasonic,
Severed Heads,
Arcadia,
John Lydon,
Godley & Creme,
Q and Not U,
AZ,
Black Flag,
Basic Channel,
Crime,
The Seeds,
This Heat,
June of 44,
Rotary Connection,
the Human League,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Residents,
Eve St. Jones,
Bad Manners,
E-Dancer,
Intrusion,
Shoche,
Scratch Acid,
Pylon,
Derrick Morgan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Moody Blues,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.