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 Greece and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Babytalk to the funk 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Misunderstood,
Adolescents,
Delon & Dalcan,
Warren Ellis,
Subhumans,
Davy DMX,
Terrestrial Tones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Qualms,
Hardrive,
Robert Görl,
Danielle Patucci,
Smog,
Infiniti,
UT,
Skarface,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Funkadelic,
The Blackbyrds,
Steve Hackett,
The Dirtbombs,
Sandy B,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Wake,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rod Modell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
World's Most,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Monolake,
Throbbing Gristle,
Public Enemy,
Can,
Yellowson,
Siglo XX,
The Seeds,
Quando Quango,
JFA,
The Offenders,
Ice-T,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
David Axelrod,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Little Man,
Groovy Waters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Vladislav Delay,
Todd Terry,
Laurel Aitken,
Aaron Thompson,
Supertramp,
the Slits,
Janne Schatter,
Porter Ricks,
Jandek,
Panda Bear,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang of Four,
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.