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 Macedonia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Section 25 to the disco 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Zero Boys,
Bob Dylan,
Wings,
The Motions,
Basic Channel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Music Machine,
The Raincoats,
The Doors,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The J.B.'s,
Davy DMX,
Amazonics,
Pantytec,
Robert Wyatt,
Silicon Teens,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fela Kuti,
L. Decosne,
Moby Grape,
Deakin,
Barrington Levy,
Lower 48,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fear,
Mission of Burma,
Monolake,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marvin Gaye,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deepchord,
Chrome,
The Gun Club,
Q65,
Reagan Youth,
Nik Kershaw,
Fugazi,
LL Cool J,
Lee Hazlewood,
Toni Rubio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Arthur Verocai,
Eli Mardock,
Jandek,
Rekid,
Jeff Mills,
Animal Collective,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Severed Heads,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joe Finger,
Barry Ungar,
The Young Rascals,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marshall Jefferson,
Guru Guru,
Boredoms,
Simply Red,
June Days,
Radio Birdman,
Moebius,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.