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 Sierra Leone and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
cv313,
Spandau Ballet,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Saccharine Trust,
Wolf Eyes,
Wings,
Funky Four + One,
The Black Dice,
E-Dancer,
Patti Smith,
Terry Callier,
Kerrie Biddell,
Letta Mbulu,
Jandek,
Q65,
Nas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alton Ellis,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Junior Murvin,
The Fuzztones,
The Busters,
Chris Corsano,
Colin Newman,
The Neon Judgement,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Das Ding,
In Retrospect,
Schoolly D,
Pagans,
The American Breed,
The Fortunes,
Banda Bassotti,
Mission of Burma,
Isaac Hayes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minor Threat,
Harry Pussy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aaron Thompson,
The Moody Blues,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bluetip,
Black Pus,
Sun City Girls,
Ken Boothe,
The Cowsills,
New York Dolls,
OOIOO,
The Gories,
Agitation Free,
Depeche Mode,
Arthur Verocai,
Pierre Henry,
Sonic Youth,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Clarke,
Iggy Pop,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.