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 Albania and from Manila.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Halifax.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 DJ Sneak to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
cv313,
Flash Fearless,
Davy DMX,
ABC,
Q65,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minnie Riperton,
Minny Pops,
The Standells,
Juan Atkins,
The Blues Magoos,
Bronski Beat,
The Smoke,
Easy Going,
Albert Ayler,
Prince Buster,
Goldenarms,
Byron Stingily,
Aloha Tigers,
Patti Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jandek,
AZ,
Ronnie Foster,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Siglo XX,
Amazonics,
Brand Nubian,
T.S.O.L.,
Tres Demented,
Bobby Byrd,
Ultravox,
Sex Pistols,
Pussy Galore,
The Skatalites,
Ken Boothe,
Kerri Chandler,
Chris Corsano,
Ituana,
Leonard Cohen,
Von Mondo,
Lungfish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Barracudas,
Mo-Dettes,
Jawbox,
Model 500,
Agitation Free,
The Doors,
Ultra Naté,
The Moody Blues,
Anthony Braxton,
Pierre Henry,
the Swans,
The Toasters,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.