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 Cambodia and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Funky Four + One to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
T. Rex,
The Blackbyrds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeff Mills,
Avey Tare,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lou Reed,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eurythmics,
Joey Negro,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ludus,
Zero Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radio Birdman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Walker Brothers,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Evens,
Isaac Hayes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eric Dolphy,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Associates,
Liliput,
Au Pairs,
Pulsallama,
The Standells,
June Days,
The Mojo Men,
Tres Demented,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scrapy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Easy Going,
DNA,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gastr Del Sol,
Inner City,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Grass Roots,
The Barracudas,
Section 25,
Delta 5,
Amazonics,
Talk Talk,
Donny Hathaway,
Moebius,
The Move,
Jacques Brel,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
The Doors,
Organ,
Neil Young,
a-ha,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.