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 Congo and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the punk 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Jandek,
Accadde A,
Interpol,
Sixth Finger,
Terrestrial Tones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Isaac Hayes,
Groovy Waters,
Mo-Dettes,
the Association,
Soulsonic Force,
Von Mondo,
Rod Modell,
Cecil Taylor,
U.S. Maple,
The Stooges,
Black Bananas,
Davy DMX,
New Age Steppers,
Vainqueur,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Germs,
A Certain Ratio,
Mark Hollis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Human League,
Main Source,
Ponytail,
Grandmaster Flash,
Subhumans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cheater Slicks,
Bizarre Inc.,
UT,
Magma,
Shuggie Otis,
The Electric Prunes,
Siglo XX,
The Raincoats,
the Sonics,
Fat Boys,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric Copeland,
Drexciya,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Byrd,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultra Naté,
Rapeman,
Arthur Verocai,
Amon Düül,
Letta Mbulu,
Minnie Riperton,
Quando Quango,
the Human League,
Jimmy McGriff,
Au Pairs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maurizio,
Das Ding,
The Blackbyrds,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.