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 Korea North and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Tears for Fears to the techno 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Lower 48,
Bang On A Can,
Marmalade,
Tomorrow,
Skriet,
The Dead C,
LL Cool J,
X-102,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Niagra,
Joensuu 1685,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gastr Del Sol,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun Ra,
Aaron Thompson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Juan Atkins,
Ronnie Foster,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fear,
June of 44,
Schoolly D,
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Bourne,
Bluetip,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suburban Knight,
Panda Bear,
Boz Scaggs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Red Krayola,
Flash Fearless,
Adolescents,
Soulsonic Force,
Echospace,
Shoche,
Vainqueur,
Pierre Henry,
Drexciya,
Marc Almond,
Pulsallama,
Yusef Lateef,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
CMW,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hardrive,
OOIOO,
The Gories,
Gang Green,
Roxette,
Aural Exciters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Slits,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.