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 Denmark and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Happenings to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Gang of Four,
Barbara Tucker,
Radiohead,
Smog,
Fear,
K-Klass,
Letta Mbulu,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Skaos,
Roxy Music,
Joe Finger,
Avey Tare,
World's Most,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Mummies,
The Raincoats,
The Standells,
Q and Not U,
Black Sheep,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker,
The Slits,
Camberwell Now,
The New Christs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fugs,
Jandek,
Henry Cow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Human League,
Rekid,
New Age Steppers,
Tom Boy,
ABBA,
The Gap Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Index,
Excepter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Associates,
The Stooges,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gories,
Surgeon,
Deepchord,
Ten City,
Gang Gang Dance,
Babytalk,
the Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cure,
The Last Poets,
Audionom,
Technova,
Prince Buster,
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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.