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 Norway and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scott Walker to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Gang Green,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Shuggie Otis,
the Slits,
David McCallum,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Divine Comedy,
Ituana,
The Flesh Eaters,
Slave,
Circle Jerks,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Piero Umiliani,
Soul Sonic Force,
Audionom,
Wings,
Inner City,
Terrestrial Tones,
Althea and Donna,
Terry Callier,
Siglo XX,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlback,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unrelated Segments,
Drexciya,
World's Most,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Groovy Waters,
Delta 5,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sight & Sound,
Albert Ayler,
U.S. Maple,
Underground Resistance,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
K-Klass,
Robert Hood,
The Barracudas,
The Doors,
Dark Day,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Five Americans,
Rotary Connection,
Eurythmics,
Morten Harket,
Archie Shepp,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visage,
Matthew Bourne,
Grey Daturas,
Robert Wyatt,
Gabor Szabo,
Bluetip,
Yellowson,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.