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 Guatemala and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Peter and Kerry to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
KRS-One,
Henry Cow,
Sex Pistols,
Basic Channel,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed,
Y Pants,
The Doors,
Derrick Morgan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Thompson Twins,
Donald Byrd,
The Modern Lovers,
Alison Limerick,
Jandek,
Monolake,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The United States of America,
Bronski Beat,
Colin Newman,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hasil Adkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Chris Corsano,
The Misunderstood,
Ohio Players,
Scott Walker,
Dark Day,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nik Kershaw,
Robert Görl,
Groovy Waters,
Prince Buster,
Pussy Galore,
Ossler,
Nation of Ulysses,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pylon,
Procol Harum,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Monochrome Set,
Davy DMX,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Slits,
Dual Sessions,
The Invisible,
The Toasters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Technova,
John Coltrane,
Metal Thangz,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Music Machine,
L. Decosne,
the Slits,
Blossom Toes,
Supertramp,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bill Near,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.