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 Brunei and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes 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 Agent Orange 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Essential Logic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Remains,
The Golliwogs,
Tomorrow,
Theoretical Girls,
Sex Pistols,
Funkadelic,
Nick Fraelich,
The Victims,
Cluster,
The Seeds,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Basic Channel,
Angry Samoans,
Jandek,
CMW,
One Last Wish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vainqueur,
Heaven 17,
The Skatalites,
Blake Baxter,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Slits,
Peter & Gordon,
Organ,
The Birthday Party,
The Cure,
The Index,
The Walker Brothers,
Mars,
The Monks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Symarip,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Andrew Hill,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moss Icon,
The Buckinghams,
Swell Maps,
Moebius,
Delon & Dalcan,
Archie Shepp,
Roxy Music,
Dawn Penn,
Joensuu 1685,
The Evens,
Funky Four + One,
The Monochrome Set,
Malaria!,
Iggy Pop,
The Black Dice,
Max Romeo,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Prince Buster,
Amazonics,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.