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 Kenya and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the funk 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sarah Menescal,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Alton Ellis,
JFA,
Joey Negro,
Joe Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
Michelle Simonal,
The Selecter,
The Skatalites,
UT,
Smog,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Harmonia,
Slick Rick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Radiohead,
The Misunderstood,
The Angels of Light,
Altered Images,
Bobby Womack,
The Shadows of Knight,
Juan Atkins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Skarface,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bootsy Collins,
Radio Birdman,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sound Behaviour,
Alison Limerick,
Yazoo,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Tremeloes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lower 48,
Al Stewart,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Franke,
Surgeon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Finger,
The Real Kids,
The Moody Blues,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Sherman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
Flamin' Groovies,
Flipper,
Arab on Radar,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.