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 Hungary and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Holger Czukay 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the disco 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Joensuu 1685,
Pantytec,
Eric Dolphy,
Flipper,
Little Man,
Deadbeat,
Kayak,
Sarah Menescal,
Ohio Players,
Moss Icon,
The Dirtbombs,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ultra Naté,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Au Pairs,
DJ Style,
Trumans Water,
Anthony Braxton,
The Tremeloes,
The Cramps,
The Smoke,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rites of Spring,
Scrapy,
Gong,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
China Crisis,
Ultimate Spinach,
Organ,
Ralphi Rosario,
Quadrant,
Absolute Body Control,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Pop Group,
In Retrospect,
The Walker Brothers,
John Holt,
Magazine,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bush Tetras,
The Alarm Clocks,
Theoretical Girls,
Brick,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pulsallama,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Laurel Aitken,
Tomorrow,
Ultravox,
Yusef Lateef,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kenny Larkin,
Half Japanese,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.