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 Azerbaijan and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 La Düsseldorf to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
the Normal,
Outsiders,
New Age Steppers,
Theoretical Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Henry Cow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Sisters of Mercy,
48th St. Collective,
Interpol,
Hasil Adkins,
Sparks,
Josef K,
Godley & Creme,
Guru Guru,
Moby Grape,
Flipper,
Darondo,
Warren Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bob Dylan,
Supertramp,
Technova,
Neu!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Magma,
X-102,
The Toasters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vladislav Delay,
Vainqueur,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marine Girls,
The Trojans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cluster,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Qualms,
Minnie Riperton,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pierre Henry,
Glenn Branca,
Moss Icon,
Stiv Bators,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kurtis Blow,
the Germs,
The Black Dice,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Althea and Donna,
Scion,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Saints,
Flash Fearless,
Audionom,
Throbbing Gristle,
Siglo XX,
Colin Newman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.