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 Spain and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Winnipeg and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Josef K to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Silicon Teens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Depeche Mode,
Gang of Four,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Danielle Patucci,
Adolescents,
Anakelly,
The Blues Magoos,
Flash Fearless,
Curtis Mayfield,
X-101,
The Divine Comedy,
Howard Jones,
Bush Tetras,
Slick Rick,
Cymande,
Harmonia,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pussy Galore,
Lalann,
X-102,
Crash Course in Science,
Prince Buster,
Robert Görl,
Anthony Braxton,
Donald Byrd,
The Buckinghams,
Jimmy McGriff,
Massinfluence,
Country Teasers,
Black Flag,
The Moleskins,
Chris Corsano,
June Days,
U.S. Maple,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Slackers,
A Certain Ratio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
D'Angelo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Laurel Aitken,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Skriet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Steve Hackett,
Magazine,
Rites of Spring,
Mars,
Yellowson,
Oblivians,
Flipper,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blancmange,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.