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 Ukraine and from Hong Kong.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 David Bowie 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 AZ to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
David Axelrod,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Skatalites,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter and Kerry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Silicon Teens,
Mandrill,
B.T. Express,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Byron Stingily,
Wire,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Japan,
Siglo XX,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Seeds,
Ohio Players,
The Pretty Things,
The Gap Band,
Depeche Mode,
Los Fastidios,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yusef Lateef,
The Moleskins,
Sight & Sound,
New York Dolls,
This Heat,
Crispian St. Peters,
Boredoms,
Gang of Four,
Qualms,
Robert Wyatt,
kango's stein massive,
Panda Bear,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sound,
Khruangbin,
Dead Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Don Cherry,
Average White Band,
Harmonia,
Minny Pops,
Monolake,
Bobby Byrd,
Ponytail,
Swell Maps,
Camouflage,
Charles Mingus,
John Foxx,
the Bar-Kays,
Pierre Henry,
D'Angelo,
Main Source,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Womack,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.