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 Finland and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Curtis Mayfield to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Sight & Sound,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers,
LL Cool J,
Juan Atkins,
Thompson Twins,
The Sound,
Organ,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Hill,
Tomorrow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Black Bananas,
Rosa Yemen,
Absolute Body Control,
John Coltrane,
The Barracudas,
Public Image Ltd.,
Josef K,
The Victims,
Suburban Knight,
Lebanon Hanover,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Fania All-Stars,
T.S.O.L.,
Hashim,
F. McDonald,
The Busters,
The Neon Judgement,
Amazonics,
Q65,
Byron Stingily,
The Real Kids,
Con Funk Shun,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Simply Red,
In Retrospect,
Severed Heads,
Depeche Mode,
Eric Copeland,
Man Parrish,
Circle Jerks,
Franke,
The Raincoats,
The Smoke,
Leonard Cohen,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC,
Man Eating Sloth,
Main Source,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Liliput,
Sonny Sharrock,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lakeside,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The New Christs,
Sixth Finger,
Ohio Players,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.