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 East Timor and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Marvin Gaye,
Nico,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Birthday Party,
Erykah Badu,
Bang On A Can,
Quando Quango,
The Buckinghams,
MDC,
Siglo XX,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Green,
Flipper,
Byron Stingily,
Erasure,
the Human League,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Section 25,
The Mojo Men,
These Immortal Souls,
Minnie Riperton,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aswad,
Cheater Slicks,
Sex Pistols,
The Fugs,
Simply Red,
The Cure,
Little Man,
Sonny Sharrock,
Faust,
David Bowie,
Lungfish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Inner City,
Gang Starr,
Robert Hood,
X-101,
the Normal,
Dead Boys,
Roxy Music,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mary Jane Girls,
Howard Jones,
Ronan,
Carl Craig,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
OOIOO,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fuzztones,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
The Red Krayola,
The Dave Clark Five,
PIL,
Camouflage,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.