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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 David Bowie 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Joe Finger,
a-ha,
Whodini,
Lucky Dragons,
Bang On A Can,
The Moleskins,
Susan Cadogan,
Erasure,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
Unwound,
DNA,
Buzzcocks,
Erykah Badu,
Mars,
Visage,
Drexciya,
The Doobie Brothers,
Max Romeo,
Nico,
Swans,
Alison Limerick,
Spoonie Gee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marc Almond,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Steve Hackett,
Rufus Thomas,
Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
Pulsallama,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Last Poets,
Ultra Naté,
Quantec,
UT,
The Alarm Clocks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Graham Central Station,
Gregory Isaacs,
Thompson Twins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
OOIOO,
Ponytail,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pantytec,
Roy Ayers,
The Names,
Peter & Gordon,
Leonard Cohen,
Model 500,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Idris Muhammad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Maleditus Sound,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.