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 Monaco and from Bremen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the crunk 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
H. Thieme,
MC5,
The Gap Band,
R.M.O.,
Davy DMX,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Saccharine Trust,
Hashim,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Dolphy,
Accadde A,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Dark Day,
ABBA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Japan,
Mission of Burma,
Bobby Byrd,
Kerri Chandler,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Litter,
Soft Cell,
Minor Threat,
Vladislav Delay,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mark Hollis,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fad Gadget,
Crooked Eye,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Bar-Kays,
Bronski Beat,
Susan Cadogan,
Radio Birdman,
Todd Rundgren,
Jawbox,
Gabor Szabo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blake Baxter,
Dual Sessions,
Rites of Spring,
The J.B.'s,
Arthur Verocai,
Hasil Adkins,
Von Mondo,
Gichy Dan,
Joyce Sims,
The Birthday Party,
The Grass Roots,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Zapp,
The Buckinghams,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.