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 Uganda and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Con Funk Shun to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Youth Brigade,
The Victims,
The Sound,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kevin Saunderson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Saints,
Fear,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marmalade,
Pierre Henry,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Susan Cadogan,
the Bar-Kays,
Amon Düül II,
The Moody Blues,
New Order,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Albert Ayler,
Fela Kuti,
Byron Stingily,
Interpol,
T.S.O.L.,
Josef K,
Agent Orange,
Y Pants,
MDC,
Donny Hathaway,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
PIL,
Anakelly,
Pantytec,
The Cramps,
David Bowie,
Schoolly D,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonic Youth,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scientists,
Saccharine Trust,
Fatback Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Can,
Simply Red,
Smog,
Deadbeat,
Ice-T,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pylon,
Liliput,
Animal Collective,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.