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 Uruguay and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Bizarre Inc. to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Pere Ubu,
the Germs,
The Remains,
The Leaves,
Cecil Taylor,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Raincoats,
Buzzcocks,
Black Bananas,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gong,
Main Source,
OOIOO,
Aswad,
The Dirtbombs,
Derrick May,
Henry Cow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warsaw,
Lyres,
Panda Bear,
Ornette Coleman,
Slick Rick,
The Sonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Buckinghams,
Yaz,
Morten Harket,
Lower 48,
The Names,
CMW,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gap Band,
Minutemen,
Hardrive,
DNA,
Robert Görl,
Howard Jones,
The Doors,
Gang of Four,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mars,
Malaria!,
Pierre Henry,
Desert Stars,
the Association,
The J.B.'s,
Eve St. Jones,
Dawn Penn,
Archie Shepp,
Lakeside,
Essential Logic,
The Pop Group,
The Litter,
Banda Bassotti,
Skarface,
UT,
Cybotron,
Eden Ahbez,
Arthur Verocai,
D'Angelo,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.