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 Mali and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Alarm Clocks. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
DJ Sneak,
Massinfluence,
One Last Wish,
Lightning Bolt,
Unrelated Segments,
Yusef Lateef,
Man Parrish,
Terry Callier,
Howard Jones,
Sister Nancy,
Main Source,
Masters at Work,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fugazi,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Letta Mbulu,
John Cale,
Mars,
Flash Fearless,
Wings,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sun City Girls,
In Retrospect,
Underground Resistance,
Ronan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gabor Szabo,
Surgeon,
Alice Coltrane,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Panda Bear,
Deadbeat,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Teasers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang of Four,
The Red Krayola,
Average White Band,
Amon Düül,
Josef K,
Hot Snakes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Clarke,
Oblivians,
Joe Smooth,
Heaven 17,
Nirvana,
Charles Mingus,
Royal Trux,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Toasters,
The Pop Group,
Television,
Black Moon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cecil Taylor,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.