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 Gambia and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Rotary Connection to the punk 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace 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?
Nils Olav,
The Velvet Underground,
The Standells,
The Toasters,
The Skatalites,
Hardrive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mo-Dettes,
CMW,
Aaron Thompson,
Joyce Sims,
Symarip,
Iggy Pop,
Brothers Johnson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Heaven 17,
Skriet,
Morten Harket,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Near,
Monks,
The Knickerbockers,
Jacob Miller,
Siglo XX,
Basic Channel,
Scan 7,
Jimmy McGriff,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
One Last Wish,
Bobby Byrd,
Kas Product,
Joey Negro,
Big Daddy Kane,
Model 500,
The Stooges,
Matthew Bourne,
Sällskapet,
Camberwell Now,
Nico,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Star Department,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Reagan Youth,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marine Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Young Marble Giants,
Thee Headcoats,
The United States of America,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Severed Heads,
Soul II Soul,
Letta Mbulu,
Rotary Connection,
John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Surgeon,
Duran Duran,
Wasted Youth,
Bluetip,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.