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 Uganda and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Louis and Bebe Barron to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
The Blackbyrds,
OOIOO,
Bobby Byrd,
Isaac Hayes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Fortunes,
Joe Smooth,
Black Pus,
Schoolly D,
Minnie Riperton,
Junior Murvin,
Zero Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Japan,
Roxy Music,
Au Pairs,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-Ray Spex,
The Busters,
Barbara Tucker,
Quadrant,
Nik Kershaw,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sixth Finger,
Aswad,
Theoretical Girls,
Tomorrow,
Fatback Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott Heron,
Maurizio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Suburban Knight,
Eddi Front,
Soul II Soul,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
EPMD,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bang On A Can,
Technova,
Henry Cow,
MC5,
Reagan Youth,
Boredoms,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jacques Brel,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Lydon,
Fugazi,
Lyres,
Clear Light,
Jawbox,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.