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 Malta and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 snare 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 The Dave Clark Five to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Doors. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Sarah Menescal,
Joe Smooth,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Stooges,
Minutemen,
Theoretical Girls,
Sällskapet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ronan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Max Romeo,
Bauhaus,
Rekid,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Vogues,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Dave Clark Five,
Smog,
Archie Shepp,
Kurtis Blow,
Graham Central Station,
Eurythmics,
Fluxion,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
Gil Scott Heron,
Freddie Wadling,
The Real Kids,
Masters at Work,
The Angels of Light,
Bronski Beat,
Althea and Donna,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Martian,
X-102,
Frankie Knuckles,
James White and The Blacks,
One Last Wish,
Tommy Roe,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
D'Angelo,
Scan 7,
Quantec,
Wally Richardson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Slick Rick,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Reed,
John Foxx,
Sight & Sound,
Thompson Twins,
The Raincoats,
The Happenings,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.