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 Hungary and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Joe Smooth to the techno 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Marvin Gaye,
the Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultra Naté,
Isaac Hayes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hot Snakes,
Ice-T,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
The Mojo Men,
The Stooges,
Patti Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Easy Going,
Joensuu 1685,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Unwound,
Chris Corsano,
Byron Stingily,
Swans,
Bobby Sherman,
Schoolly D,
Tears for Fears,
The Neon Judgement,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roxy Music,
Half Japanese,
Wire,
Throbbing Gristle,
Shuggie Otis,
Jawbox,
Con Funk Shun,
Essential Logic,
The Gladiators,
Average White Band,
The Invisible,
Sex Pistols,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Associates,
Cameo,
Graham Central Station,
Fat Boys,
Pole,
Monks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aloha Tigers,
The Dirtbombs,
Iggy Pop,
K-Klass,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Human League,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minutemen,
Fad Gadget,
Tommy Roe,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.