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 Rwanda and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 The Gap Band to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Spoonie Gee,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Monochrome Set,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nirvana,
Sun City Girls,
The Litter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jandek,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Womack,
Index,
Parry Music,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Alton Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ornette Coleman,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eurythmics,
OOIOO,
Derrick Morgan,
Electric Prunes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Flash Fearless,
Idris Muhammad,
Desert Stars,
The Doors,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The United States of America,
The Shadows of Knight,
Khruangbin,
Television Personalities,
Tres Demented,
Warren Ellis,
Joe Finger,
Scion,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Unrelated Segments,
Can,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
One Last Wish,
Traffic Nightmare,
MDC,
Pharoah Sanders,
Qualms,
Scan 7,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Sneak,
Organ,
Fluxion,
Tom Boy,
John Holt,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.