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 Vietnam and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Easy Going to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lakeside,
Funkadelic,
The Leaves,
Masters at Work,
Symarip,
Schoolly D,
John Foxx,
The Human League,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marshall Jefferson,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Flag,
Magma,
The Saints,
the Bar-Kays,
Joensuu 1685,
Sound Behaviour,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Buzzcocks,
Janne Schatter,
Kerri Chandler,
Severed Heads,
Sarah Menescal,
The Index,
Sun City Girls,
Trumans Water,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Motions,
Oblivians,
Little Man,
Scott Walker,
Marine Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dead Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Royal Trux,
Au Pairs,
Oneida,
Mars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Zero Boys,
Niagra,
Ponytail,
the Soft Cell,
Monks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gong,
Saccharine Trust,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
Tears for Fears,
The Techniques,
Kayak,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Moon,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.