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 Swaziland and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Janne Schatter to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Sam Rivers,
Theoretical Girls,
The Searchers,
Oneida,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
Icehouse,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sarah Menescal,
Eric Copeland,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
PIL,
Intrusion,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Underground Resistance,
Jerry's Kids,
Quantec,
Robert Hood,
Shuggie Otis,
Kerri Chandler,
cv313,
Black Bananas,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
Barbara Tucker,
Marshall Jefferson,
Clear Light,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Patti Smith,
Marine Girls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Offenders,
Todd Rundgren,
New Order,
Saccharine Trust,
The Toasters,
Zapp,
Nas,
Altered Images,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Livin' Joy,
The Cure,
Groovy Waters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Blues Magoos,
Whodini,
Lou Christie,
Ponytail,
Robert Görl,
Max Romeo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.