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 Switzerland and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 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 Nico to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Bob Dylan,
Amazonics,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alton Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Rekid,
Cecil Taylor,
Popol Vuh,
The Count Five,
Kayak,
Terry Callier,
Pet Shop Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Funkadelic,
Byron Stingily,
Yaz,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Al Stewart,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marc Almond,
Hardrive,
Fluxion,
The Leaves,
Fugazi,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dawn Penn,
Eric Copeland,
The Monochrome Set,
Minnie Riperton,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins,
Rakim,
Sandy B,
ABBA,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Excepter,
Alphaville,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Malaria!,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sällskapet,
Sonic Youth,
Television Personalities,
Theoretical Girls,
Gong,
Monks,
Dark Day,
The Moody Blues,
U.S. Maple,
Funky Four + One,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Trumans Water,
Ice-T,
F. McDonald,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.