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 Sri Lanka and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ralphi Rosario to the grime 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
Funky Four + One,
Jandek,
Clear Light,
Black Bananas,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Raincoats,
Bluetip,
The Smoke,
Little Man,
Sun City Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hasil Adkins,
The Monochrome Set,
X-102,
Eli Mardock,
Pierre Henry,
Slave,
Henry Cow,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Cale,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Wake,
Sight & Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tres Demented,
Shoche,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Sonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Martian,
Bobby Sherman,
48th St. Collective,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Public Enemy,
Ornette Coleman,
The Techniques,
Goldenarms,
Arthur Verocai,
Bad Manners,
Dennis Brown,
John Foxx,
Maleditus Sound,
Mandrill,
Fatback Band,
Nils Olav,
Tears for Fears,
Stereo Dub,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sonic Youth,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.