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 Marshall Islands 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Swell Maps to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Main Source,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
New York Dolls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alton Ellis,
Von Mondo,
Tubeway Army,
MDC,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Soft Cell,
The Seeds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kurtis Blow,
Stetsasonic,
Alphaville,
The Divine Comedy,
Index,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anakelly,
The Evens,
Junior Murvin,
The Modern Lovers,
Marine Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Quantec,
Public Enemy,
the Human League,
The Human League,
Popol Vuh,
Bauhaus,
Byron Stingily,
Oblivians,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
cv313,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Simply Red,
Alison Limerick,
PIL,
The Last Poets,
Jeff Lynne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bush Tetras,
Procol Harum,
Nik Kershaw,
Ponytail,
Roy Ayers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
R.M.O.,
The Five Americans,
Charles Mingus,
Althea and Donna,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Halsall,
Dark Day,
Aural Exciters,
Television Personalities,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fortunes,
Mr. Review,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.