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 Tonga and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Neil Young to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Section 25,
Sunsets and Hearts,
48th St. Collective,
Funky Four + One,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Tremeloes,
Quadrant,
ABC,
Cybotron,
Mantronix,
Adolescents,
The Litter,
E-Dancer,
Chris Corsano,
Mr. Review,
Eve St. Jones,
Maleditus Sound,
Chris & Cosey,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
ABBA,
Main Source,
Inner City,
Sugar Minott,
KRS-One,
Monolake,
Animal Collective,
the Normal,
Second Layer,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gap Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Visage,
the Sonics,
Drexciya,
Davy DMX,
Brothers Johnson,
FM Einheit,
Intrusion,
John Cale,
Rosa Yemen,
AZ,
Yazoo,
Funkadelic,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Toasters,
Sixth Finger,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Blake Baxter,
Skarface,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Zero Boys,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bluetip,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deadbeat,
Easy Going,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stetsasonic,
F. McDonald,
Rufus Thomas,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.