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 Malta and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 John Coltrane to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blossom Toes,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thompson Twins,
Tommy Roe,
Man Eating Sloth,
Toni Rubio,
Technova,
Loose Ends,
K-Klass,
Duran Duran,
Sällskapet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers,
The Pop Group,
The Doors,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gichy Dan,
Magma,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Arthur Verocai,
The Residents,
Traffic Nightmare,
Frankie Knuckles,
DJ Sneak,
Skarface,
The Blackbyrds,
Isaac Hayes,
Max Romeo,
Jerry's Kids,
Grauzone,
Dave Gahan,
Public Enemy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Flipper,
The Moleskins,
Ten City,
Fluxion,
Gang of Four,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Reagan Youth,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Little Man,
June Days,
Minor Threat,
Black Sheep,
Anakelly,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Youth Brigade,
Spoonie Gee,
Mantronix,
Juan Atkins,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Simply Red,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rakim,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.