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 Morocco 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Ralphi Rosario 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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
K-Klass,
Index,
The Index,
Bauhaus,
Chrome,
Nick Fraelich,
Scott Walker,
Tomorrow,
The Zeros,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Suicide,
10cc,
Cal Tjader,
Wally Richardson,
Zapp,
The Birthday Party,
Massinfluence,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dennis Brown,
The Five Americans,
the Slits,
The Beau Brummels,
Man Parrish,
The Remains,
Excepter,
Hashim,
Agitation Free,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eve St. Jones,
Half Japanese,
The Motions,
Lou Reed,
Jacob Miller,
Pole,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Moody Blues,
The Doobie Brothers,
Funkadelic,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Heaven 17,
Aloha Tigers,
John Foxx,
Mantronix,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soul II Soul,
AZ,
Delta 5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Infiniti,
The Leaves,
the Soft Cell,
Fear,
Joy Division,
Ohio Players,
Deakin,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.