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 Kyrgyzstan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Girls At Our Best! to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Prince Buster,
The Vogues,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quadrant,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fall,
Mars,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brass Construction,
Al Stewart,
Guru Guru,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Flag,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
Arthur Verocai,
Livin' Joy,
World's Most,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nico,
The Searchers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Red Krayola,
Young Marble Giants,
Skriet,
Scan 7,
Bill Wells,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Raincoats,
Jeff Lynne,
The American Breed,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stockholm Monsters,
Wasted Youth,
The Gap Band,
Sam Rivers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visage,
The Cowsills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Warsaw,
Dorothy Ashby,
Graham Central Station,
the Sonics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Seeds,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Associates,
Soft Cell,
Yusef Lateef,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.