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 Uruguay and from Hong Kong.
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 Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Organ,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Amon Düül II,
Gabor Szabo,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlback,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tubeway Army,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Steve Hackett,
Dead Boys,
Charles Mingus,
Boz Scaggs,
Aural Exciters,
The Stooges,
The Cramps,
Marmalade,
FM Einheit,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Chrome,
Camouflage,
Slave,
Erasure,
DJ Sneak,
Sandy B,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jandek,
Eric Copeland,
The Last Poets,
Alphaville,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Icehouse,
Magma,
Sonic Youth,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Gories,
Black Moon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kurtis Blow,
Alison Limerick,
Lyres,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Durutti Column,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kayak,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Red Krayola,
LL Cool J,
Model 500,
Desert Stars,
Clear Light,
Glenn Branca,
Index,
Vainqueur,
Blancmange,
Deadbeat,
Lower 48,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.