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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Colin Newman to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Reagan Youth,
The Victims,
The Seeds,
The Count Five,
The Busters,
Todd Terry,
CMW,
Severed Heads,
Theoretical Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-102,
Alton Ellis,
Nico,
Lucky Dragons,
the Human League,
Young Marble Giants,
Nick Fraelich,
Donny Hathaway,
The Slackers,
New Age Steppers,
Hashim,
Yaz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nirvana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul II Soul,
Ice-T,
The Smoke,
Procol Harum,
Ituana,
Maurizio,
Quando Quango,
Main Source,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Country Teasers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Blossom Toes,
Model 500,
The Raincoats,
Curtis Mayfield,
Essential Logic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Clear Light,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Letta Mbulu,
Rites of Spring,
Rekid,
The Music Machine,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
MDC,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visage,
The Fall,
the Association,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.