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 Israel and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pierre Henry to the dance 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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Moss Icon,
The Selecter,
The Five Americans,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Urselle,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Maurizio,
Grey Daturas,
Sonic Youth,
Monolake,
Quando Quango,
Dead Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Heaven 17,
Funky Four + One,
The Associates,
Swans,
Fugazi,
LL Cool J,
Quadrant,
Kenny Larkin,
Von Mondo,
Robert Wyatt,
Lightning Bolt,
Rhythm & Sound,
Motorama,
The Wake,
Skriet,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fall,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brand Nubian,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Leonard Cohen,
Gang of Four,
The Golliwogs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sparks,
Can,
Wally Richardson,
New York Dolls,
Das Ding,
Scratch Acid,
The Last Poets,
Faust,
Swell Maps,
Kerri Chandler,
Pussy Galore,
Todd Rundgren,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Dennis Brown,
Wings,
Idris Muhammad,
Oblivians,
Sixth Finger,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.