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 St Lucia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro 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 Technova to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
The Doobie Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Todd Rundgren,
Lindisfarne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxy Music,
Lyres,
Roger Hodgson,
Arab on Radar,
Negative Approach,
Marvin Gaye,
Sandy B,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Smiths,
La Düsseldorf,
Crime,
10cc,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Holt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Birthday Party,
T.S.O.L.,
Neu!,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Zeros,
Cybotron,
Sugar Minott,
Interpol,
Guru Guru,
The Evens,
Amon Düül,
Suburban Knight,
Vladislav Delay,
Don Cherry,
JFA,
The J.B.'s,
Q65,
David Axelrod,
Leonard Cohen,
Unrelated Segments,
Agitation Free,
Nils Olav,
Anthony Braxton,
the Association,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Loose Ends,
Inner City,
David McCallum,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aaron Thompson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jandek,
The Leaves,
Camouflage,
Erykah Badu,
David Bowie,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Archie Shepp,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.