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 Comoros and from Lagos.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Joensuu 1685 to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Pulsallama,
Terry Callier,
Masters at Work,
Josef K,
Gang Starr,
Donny Hathaway,
Todd Rundgren,
The Human League,
Second Layer,
Arab on Radar,
Lalann,
Marmalade,
Fat Boys,
Joe Finger,
Ken Boothe,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moby Grape,
Lungfish,
The Martian,
Black Sheep,
Sam Rivers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kerri Chandler,
Mars,
The Count Five,
The Motions,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soft Cell,
AZ,
T. Rex,
The Walker Brothers,
Inner City,
The J.B.'s,
The Selecter,
Das Ding,
Quadrant,
ABC,
Alton Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Doors,
The Litter,
Wire,
Lou Christie,
X-101,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Technova,
Quantec,
Sight & Sound,
Y Pants,
Freddie Wadling,
Steve Hackett,
Arcadia,
Idris Muhammad,
Loose Ends,
Deadbeat,
MC5,
Scion,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.