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 Belarus and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Radiohead to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Arab on Radar,
Los Fastidios,
Spandau Ballet,
Ralphi Rosario,
Patti Smith,
Cameo,
Thompson Twins,
Charles Mingus,
Pulsallama,
Amon Düül,
Lee Hazlewood,
Technova,
Barrington Levy,
Kaleidoscope,
Gong,
Ten City,
Interpol,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Freddie Wadling,
The Blues Magoos,
Alison Limerick,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Loose Ends,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lebanon Hanover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sun City Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DJ Sneak,
Ultravox,
FM Einheit,
Animal Collective,
The Young Rascals,
Jeff Lynne,
Echospace,
Drexciya,
Swans,
Negative Approach,
Slave,
Jeru the Damaja,
KRS-One,
The Star Department,
Skarface,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
The New Christs,
Ultra Naté,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Human League,
Amon Düül II,
Gregory Isaacs,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Gories,
Soft Machine,
Little Man,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.