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 Switzerland and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 harpsichord 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 Alice Coltrane to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
U.S. Maple,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minutemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glenn Branca,
Sarah Menescal,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Move,
The Slits,
Soulsonic Force,
Sex Pistols,
Warsaw,
Animal Collective,
The Pretty Things,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yaz,
H. Thieme,
Arab on Radar,
The Gories,
Masters at Work,
Dark Day,
Laurel Aitken,
Moby Grape,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bad Manners,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wire,
Ronan,
Ultravox,
New Age Steppers,
Marvin Gaye,
Visage,
Chris & Cosey,
Severed Heads,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lungfish,
Nirvana,
Sun Ra,
Moebius,
the Association,
Freddie Wadling,
Charles Mingus,
Mad Mike,
Absolute Body Control,
Thee Headcoats,
The Monks,
Country Teasers,
Juan Atkins,
the Slits,
Bronski Beat,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Index,
Negative Approach,
The Knickerbockers,
Stetsasonic,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.