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 Venezuela and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sound Behaviour to the funk 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott Heron,
Negative Approach,
Fela Kuti,
Nico,
The Slackers,
Nas,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Neil Young,
Rotary Connection,
Susan Cadogan,
The Offenders,
The Human League,
Scan 7,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Urselle,
Cameo,
The Black Dice,
Talk Talk,
Bad Manners,
The Fall,
Hasil Adkins,
Alphaville,
AZ,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Sherman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sexual Harrassment,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick Morgan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Can,
Gabor Szabo,
OOIOO,
Blancmange,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Cale,
Yusef Lateef,
Faust,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Throbbing Gristle,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
PIL,
Todd Terry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kayak,
Agent Orange,
Dennis Brown,
Little Man,
Fatback Band,
The New Christs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Guru Guru,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.