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 Malta and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Bad Manners to the electroclash 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
MDC,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker,
Junior Murvin,
Hashim,
Crooked Eye,
Letta Mbulu,
Alison Limerick,
Fat Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Age Steppers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Modern Lovers,
Con Funk Shun,
Tubeway Army,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Carl Craig,
Camberwell Now,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Toasters,
Rapeman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tropical Tobacco,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Dark Day,
New York Dolls,
Swans,
Alice Coltrane,
Bob Dylan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mars,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Roy Ayers,
Robert Görl,
Nation of Ulysses,
Amon Düül II,
T. Rex,
Flamin' Groovies,
Morten Harket,
Urselle,
Max Romeo,
The Black Dice,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Suicide,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Green,
Ice-T,
the Soft Cell,
Glenn Branca,
Alton Ellis,
The Busters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Negative Approach,
The Trojans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fad Gadget,
the Association,
Roxette,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.