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 Croatia and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Warsaw to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Bad Manners,
Flipper,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Golliwogs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Yellowson,
Quando Quango,
Unwound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Fela Kuti,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Slackers,
Henry Cow,
Hot Snakes,
Theoretical Girls,
Nils Olav,
LL Cool J,
The Red Krayola,
Rekid,
Das Ding,
The Sonics,
Freddie Wadling,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Livin' Joy,
Quadrant,
The Stooges,
Deadbeat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Wells,
The Gories,
The Dirtbombs,
Tim Buckley,
Funkadelic,
Minnie Riperton,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mission of Burma,
Gang Green,
Grauzone,
Josef K,
The Cure,
Black Flag,
The Wake,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick May,
Pantytec,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Neon Judgement,
The Last Poets,
Brass Construction,
Supertramp,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wire,
X-102,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.