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 Dominican Republic and from London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 8 Eyed Spy to the grime 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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Trojans,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cowsills,
The Human League,
Essential Logic,
Accadde A,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tom Boy,
Todd Rundgren,
the Association,
David Bowie,
Byron Stingily,
Sun City Girls,
The Zeros,
Lyres,
Gang of Four,
Bush Tetras,
Ash Ra Tempel,
JFA,
The Beau Brummels,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Blossom Toes,
Scion,
Can,
FM Einheit,
The Wake,
The J.B.'s,
Crime,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donald Byrd,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Barracudas,
Don Cherry,
Das Ding,
Ponytail,
Jawbox,
Man Parrish,
The Durutti Column,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
CMW,
Sun Ra,
Black Bananas,
Minutemen,
The United States of America,
Mantronix,
The Techniques,
Barry Ungar,
Whodini,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lower 48,
Pantytec,
X-101,
The Sound,
The Mummies,
Silicon Teens,
Thompson Twins,
Niagra,
Yellowson,
Rapeman,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.