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 Sweden and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Harpers Bizarre to the funk 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Sheep,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Human League,
June Days,
The New Christs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joe Smooth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Brick,
The Zeros,
EPMD,
Supertramp,
Marmalade,
Theoretical Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rod Modell,
PIL,
Country Teasers,
China Crisis,
ABC,
Sugar Minott,
Lyres,
Lucky Dragons,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mad Mike,
Bad Manners,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Basic Channel,
This Heat,
Wire,
Glenn Branca,
David Axelrod,
H. Thieme,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arthur Verocai,
Marvin Gaye,
Alice Coltrane,
Depeche Mode,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DJ Sneak,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gong,
Little Man,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sonny Sharrock,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang Green,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aural Exciters,
UT,
Jimmy McGriff,
Juan Atkins,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.