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 Argentina and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Excepter to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Black Flag,
Soft Machine,
D'Angelo,
Deakin,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Simply Red,
Technova,
Steve Hackett,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dennis Brown,
Quando Quango,
Man Parrish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Hashim,
Outsiders,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lee Hazlewood,
Toni Rubio,
Warren Ellis,
The Motions,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tubeway Army,
Radio Birdman,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiopuhelimet,
OOIOO,
Juan Atkins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronnie Foster,
The Human League,
Ken Boothe,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Metal Thangz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kayak,
Lou Reed,
Little Man,
John Lydon,
Anakelly,
Sight & Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lindisfarne,
Banda Bassotti,
Pole,
Massinfluence,
Marvin Gaye,
T.S.O.L.,
Symarip,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bluetip,
The Grass Roots,
The Monochrome Set,
Delon & Dalcan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Slits,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.