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 United Kingdom and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Deakin to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Eddi Front,
Reagan Youth,
The Fugs,
Matthew Bourne,
Tres Demented,
Sun Ra,
The Skatalites,
The Residents,
Yellowson,
Bush Tetras,
Tomorrow,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
Pole,
The Leaves,
Erasure,
Moebius,
Michelle Simonal,
Arcadia,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacques Brel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Basic Channel,
Boredoms,
Warren Ellis,
Moby Grape,
Moss Icon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Freddie Wadling,
Masters at Work,
Andrew Hill,
Mark Hollis,
Steve Hackett,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lakeside,
Grey Daturas,
Rod Modell,
Duran Duran,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris & Cosey,
June Days,
Stetsasonic,
Amazonics,
Severed Heads,
Hoover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hardrive,
Accadde A,
Radiopuhelimet,
kango's stein massive,
OOIOO,
L. Decosne,
Lucky Dragons,
Agitation Free,
The Cure,
Roxy Music,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.