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 Poland and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Procol Harum to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wings,
The Pretty Things,
Roxy Music,
Nils Olav,
Scan 7,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Boredoms,
Warsaw,
Gastr Del Sol,
Simply Red,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bad Manners,
The Five Americans,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Knickerbockers,
Lungfish,
Soft Cell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joensuu 1685,
The Sonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Liliput,
Outsiders,
Tubeway Army,
Eden Ahbez,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gories,
Scratch Acid,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Anthony Braxton,
The Happenings,
Don Cherry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Funky Four + One,
Soulsonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
The New Christs,
Idris Muhammad,
David Bowie,
Harmonia,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Duran Duran,
Glambeats Corp.,
Radio Birdman,
Joey Negro,
Prince Buster,
June Days,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Depeche Mode,
The Modern Lovers,
Saccharine Trust,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
June of 44,
Stockholm Monsters,
DNA,
Altered Images,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.