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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Porter Ricks,
The Zeros,
Archie Shepp,
World's Most,
Nas,
New Order,
Symarip,
U.S. Maple,
the Germs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T. Rex,
Deepchord,
Clear Light,
Robert Wyatt,
Kenny Larkin,
June Days,
Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anthony Braxton,
Mandrill,
The Techniques,
The Last Poets,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Tubeway Army,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tomorrow,
Nirvana,
The Mummies,
Neil Young,
Talk Talk,
Aswad,
Cybotron,
The Selecter,
Angry Samoans,
Pulsallama,
Glenn Branca,
E-Dancer,
The Blues Magoos,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Von Mondo,
Mad Mike,
Mr. Review,
X-Ray Spex,
Ponytail,
Graham Central Station,
Spandau Ballet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Connie Case,
The Star Department,
Mantronix,
Tres Demented,
Bush Tetras,
10cc,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Electric Prunes,
The Count Five,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.