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 Ivory Coast and from Lagos.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum 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 Sister Nancy to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Deepchord,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jimmy McGriff,
Simply Red,
Vainqueur,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Thee Headcoats,
Kerri Chandler,
The Move,
Quando Quango,
New York Dolls,
Newcleus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Idris Muhammad,
The Vogues,
Dennis Brown,
Magma,
JFA,
Liliput,
Wasted Youth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nick Fraelich,
Kaleidoscope,
Scan 7,
Outsiders,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Oneida,
Minny Pops,
Nils Olav,
Severed Heads,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
B.T. Express,
MDC,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Womack,
Colin Newman,
The Searchers,
Alphaville,
Cheater Slicks,
Tom Boy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joensuu 1685,
X-101,
The Toasters,
Lalann,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Golliwogs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Japan,
The Smoke,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.