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 Malawi and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the jazz 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
MDC,
Rotary Connection,
Index,
Boz Scaggs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brass Construction,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul II Soul,
Fela Kuti,
Cybotron,
Girls At Our Best!,
Oblivians,
The Blues Magoos,
Niagra,
Marshall Jefferson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mad Mike,
Zapp,
Fatback Band,
The Red Krayola,
Glenn Branca,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
Arab on Radar,
Minor Threat,
Surgeon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Albert Ayler,
KRS-One,
David McCallum,
Magma,
Toni Rubio,
The Sound,
Skarface,
Cymande,
Livin' Joy,
The Dirtbombs,
The Residents,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Cale,
The Star Department,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Pretty Things,
K-Klass,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arcadia,
Hashim,
Sparks,
Harpers Bizarre,
X-102,
Eurythmics,
Lungfish,
Aural Exciters,
Soft Machine,
In Retrospect,
Hardrive,
Porter Ricks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Technova,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.