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 Ethiopia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare 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 The Sonics to the disco 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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
The Selecter,
Ponytail,
Quando Quango,
48th St. Collective,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Association,
Charles Mingus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fad Gadget,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fatback Band,
The Offenders,
The Wake,
Terry Callier,
Cluster,
Pylon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Electric Prunes,
Maleditus Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Boz Scaggs,
Mantronix,
Altered Images,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blossom Toes,
Sixth Finger,
FM Einheit,
Radio Birdman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Althea and Donna,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mo-Dettes,
Dark Day,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soulsonic Force,
Cheater Slicks,
Dorothy Ashby,
ABBA,
Jacques Brel,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Fania All-Stars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Smog,
Brick,
Warren Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pole,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Monolake,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.