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 Nepal and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Saccharine Trust to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Massinfluence,
James White and The Blacks,
Roxy Music,
Man Parrish,
Parry Music,
Blake Baxter,
Silicon Teens,
The Slackers,
Half Japanese,
David Bowie,
The Fall,
Harmonia,
The Busters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Niagra,
Sugar Minott,
Marvin Gaye,
Con Funk Shun,
Yaz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Outsiders,
Curtis Mayfield,
PIL,
the Bar-Kays,
the Sonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Maleditus Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
OOIOO,
Royal Trux,
Flipper,
The Blues Magoos,
The Doors,
Pantaleimon,
Negative Approach,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aaron Thompson,
Fat Boys,
Brick,
Joe Finger,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ohio Players,
Pussy Galore,
Q and Not U,
Television Personalities,
Skarface,
Moss Icon,
Banda Bassotti,
the Germs,
Eli Mardock,
David McCallum,
K-Klass,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Sherman,
Goldenarms,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.