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 Andorra and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar 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 Shuggie Otis 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lee Hazlewood,
Amazonics,
John Lydon,
Brass Construction,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bauhaus,
The Sonics,
Blancmange,
Sun City Girls,
Clear Light,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Severed Heads,
Stockholm Monsters,
Robert Wyatt,
Chrome,
Gang Green,
Max Romeo,
The Divine Comedy,
Deakin,
World's Most,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Television Personalities,
Agitation Free,
the Human League,
The Offenders,
8 Eyed Spy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Country Teasers,
Popol Vuh,
David Bowie,
Amon Düül,
Jacob Miller,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scan 7,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Pretty Things,
Model 500,
kango's stein massive,
The Black Dice,
Monks,
Cybotron,
Mantronix,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cure,
Janne Schatter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
The Gap Band,
Echospace,
MDC,
ABC,
a-ha,
The Barracudas,
Main Source,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.