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 Syria and from London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Joyce Sims to the electroclash 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Todd Terry,
Make Up,
Derrick Morgan,
Bobby Byrd,
Sonny Sharrock,
Surgeon,
Rapeman,
The Techniques,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rufus Thomas,
Swell Maps,
Smog,
Tom Boy,
Graham Central Station,
The Stooges,
Marmalade,
Lalann,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Agitation Free,
Lightning Bolt,
Glenn Branca,
The Monochrome Set,
Crooked Eye,
Negative Approach,
Public Enemy,
Black Pus,
John Lydon,
Erasure,
Tropical Tobacco,
Funkadelic,
Chris Corsano,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Underground Resistance,
The Gun Club,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gap Band,
The Birthday Party,
Judy Mowatt,
Sight & Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Toni Rubio,
Q65,
Slave,
Jerry's Kids,
Boredoms,
Theoretical Girls,
Heaven 17,
Aaron Thompson,
Organ,
Bizarre Inc.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
LL Cool J,
Flamin' Groovies,
Depeche Mode,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minutemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.