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 Suriname and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Excepter to the dance 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Byrd,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mo-Dettes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scion,
Shoche,
Minor Threat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delta 5,
Laurel Aitken,
Mr. Review,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Birthday Party,
Skriet,
DJ Sneak,
John Foxx,
Rakim,
The Slackers,
Television Personalities,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Moebius,
Dark Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Glambeats Corp.,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül,
F. McDonald,
Y Pants,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sight & Sound,
DNA,
The Real Kids,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Gang Dance,
48th St. Collective,
Crime,
Negative Approach,
Jawbox,
Magma,
Nas,
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wolf Eyes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terry Callier,
The Evens,
Lalann,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Blossom Toes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Man Parrish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.