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 Singapore and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare 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 Nico to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Sparks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Blossom Toes,
Television Personalities,
Rufus Thomas,
The Move,
Mandrill,
Sound Behaviour,
Guru Guru,
the Sonics,
Neu!,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sugar Minott,
Colin Newman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tomorrow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Harmonia,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tears for Fears,
L. Decosne,
Eddi Front,
Pagans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Wake,
Connie Case,
Pylon,
LL Cool J,
Bush Tetras,
The Residents,
ABC,
Hoover,
Eric B and Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New Order,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Invisible,
CMW,
Tommy Roe,
Radiohead,
Talk Talk,
Gang Starr,
KRS-One,
cv313,
Dark Day,
Peter & Gordon,
Magazine,
Lower 48,
The Techniques,
The Knickerbockers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fatback Band,
The Seeds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Wyatt,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.