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 Algeria and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bobby Womack to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Stetsasonic,
Gong,
Rakim,
Sly & The Family Stone,
World's Most,
Kayak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Derrick May,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Quantec,
The Martian,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Schoolly D,
Bootsy Collins,
Colin Newman,
Second Layer,
Blake Baxter,
Sugar Minott,
Porter Ricks,
Judy Mowatt,
Marc Almond,
Joey Negro,
Zero Boys,
Moebius,
Livin' Joy,
This Heat,
Brass Construction,
Al Stewart,
The Star Department,
The Dave Clark Five,
Von Mondo,
The Last Poets,
Public Image Ltd.,
Avey Tare,
Animal Collective,
Ralphi Rosario,
Half Japanese,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
kango's stein massive,
Grey Daturas,
Glambeats Corp.,
Duran Duran,
Rites of Spring,
Bill Near,
Scan 7,
Radio Birdman,
Pierre Henry,
Marshall Jefferson,
UT,
Lalann,
Essential Logic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Knickerbockers,
The American Breed,
Scientists,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.