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 Maldives and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Niagra to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Buzzcocks,
Basic Channel,
Pole,
Fad Gadget,
DJ Style,
Delta 5,
The Raincoats,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Order,
Y Pants,
The Count Five,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Busters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Move,
Bronski Beat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Velvet Underground,
Royal Trux,
Sarah Menescal,
Agitation Free,
Amazonics,
Eddi Front,
The Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
JFA,
The Vogues,
Lou Christie,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Juan Atkins,
Stiv Bators,
Derrick May,
Ralphi Rosario,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
T. Rex,
Chris & Cosey,
Gang Green,
ABC,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ossler,
Nirvana,
Simply Red,
The Moleskins,
Bush Tetras,
Carl Craig,
The Monochrome Set,
Wally Richardson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Donald Byrd,
Cheater Slicks,
The Blues Magoos,
Altered Images,
The Mummies,
Morten Harket,
X-101,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxy Music,
Barry Ungar,
Reagan Youth,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.