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 Armenia and from Spokane.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Winnipeg.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Von Mondo to the dance 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
E-Dancer,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Severed Heads,
Cybotron,
Motorama,
Susan Cadogan,
Das Ding,
Country Joe & The Fish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
R.M.O.,
Mr. Review,
Duran Duran,
The Smoke,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sam Rivers,
Public Enemy,
Delta 5,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barclay James Harvest,
Franke,
Goldenarms,
In Retrospect,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Electric Prunes,
Q65,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stiv Bators,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Glenn Branca,
The Doors,
Roxette,
The Zeros,
Tears for Fears,
Tommy Roe,
Boredoms,
Cymande,
Crooked Eye,
Eric B and Rakim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funkadelic,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erasure,
Cameo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sandy B,
The Motions,
Trumans Water,
Jacob Miller,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Certain Ratio,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gang of Four,
Toni Rubio,
Essential Logic,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.