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 Luxembourg and from New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ponytail to the rock 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Rod Modell,
JFA,
Von Mondo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Happenings,
Curtis Mayfield,
H. Thieme,
Skriet,
Deepchord,
Throbbing Gristle,
Television Personalities,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Porter Ricks,
F. McDonald,
Minnie Riperton,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sound,
Fluxion,
The Associates,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lightning Bolt,
China Crisis,
The Beau Brummels,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
Black Bananas,
Jeff Lynne,
Lungfish,
Piero Umiliani,
Theoretical Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Slick Rick,
Oblivians,
the Normal,
The Angels of Light,
Peter and Kerry,
The Kinks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pere Ubu,
Zero Boys,
Morten Harket,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wings,
The Move,
the Association,
Iggy Pop,
Guru Guru,
New Age Steppers,
Gang Green,
Skaos,
Boogie Down Productions,
Interpol,
Jacques Brel,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.