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 Saudi Arabia and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mission of Burma to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Unrelated Segments,
The Leaves,
Glambeats Corp.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nils Olav,
Howard Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
Sound Behaviour,
Roxy Music,
Ultravox,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slackers,
Yazoo,
Khruangbin,
The Birthday Party,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Juan Atkins,
cv313,
The Blackbyrds,
The Litter,
Black Sheep,
Electric Prunes,
Arthur Verocai,
Aloha Tigers,
Janne Schatter,
Underground Resistance,
Newcleus,
Arab on Radar,
The Associates,
Barbara Tucker,
Magazine,
Barry Ungar,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barrington Levy,
Erasure,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
Q65,
Piero Umiliani,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Star Department,
Patti Smith,
Faust,
The Names,
The Skatalites,
Ossler,
Ronnie Foster,
The Beau Brummels,
The Pop Group,
Vainqueur,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter & Gordon,
The Golliwogs,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Lydon,
Ultra Naté,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.