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 Oman and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance 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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Tremeloes,
Vladislav Delay,
Piero Umiliani,
Traffic Nightmare,
Los Fastidios,
Steve Hackett,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Birthday Party,
Swell Maps,
Rapeman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Flash Fearless,
Sarah Menescal,
Vainqueur,
Pantaleimon,
Althea and Donna,
Pantytec,
Sound Behaviour,
Absolute Body Control,
John Foxx,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Slackers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dawn Penn,
Brand Nubian,
Quando Quango,
Supertramp,
Charles Mingus,
Parry Music,
Slave,
Kool Moe Dee,
Warren Ellis,
Fear,
Johnny Clarke,
This Heat,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kerri Chandler,
Davy DMX,
Bang On A Can,
Masters at Work,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minor Threat,
Oneida,
Jeru the Damaja,
John Holt,
Toni Rubio,
H. Thieme,
Easy Going,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bush Tetras,
Cluster,
The Trojans,
Eddi Front,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.