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 Italy and from Milan.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 Panda Bear to the punk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
The Black Dice,
Niagra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Saccharine Trust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Connie Case,
Wire,
The Techniques,
Gregory Isaacs,
John Cale,
Zero Boys,
The Stooges,
10cc,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Don Cherry,
Bauhaus,
T. Rex,
David Axelrod,
Janne Schatter,
Alphaville,
Bizarre Inc.,
Young Marble Giants,
The Move,
The Mojo Men,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
Nirvana,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Association,
The Seeds,
Sugar Minott,
Blossom Toes,
The Fortunes,
Godley & Creme,
Gichy Dan,
Mission of Burma,
Ohio Players,
Circle Jerks,
Cymande,
Dorothy Ashby,
Essential Logic,
The Trojans,
Kaleidoscope,
Duran Duran,
OOIOO,
The Vogues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faust,
Reagan Youth,
Maurizio,
ABC,
Throbbing Gristle,
Morten Harket,
Pagans,
The Barracudas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Oblivians,
The Smoke,
Sam Rivers,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.