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 Albania 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 synthesizer 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 Rotary Connection to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Newcleus,
Crooked Eye,
B.T. Express,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill,
The Gun Club,
Sister Nancy,
Livin' Joy,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Wake,
Sugar Minott,
The Black Dice,
Liliput,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
Porter Ricks,
Flipper,
Oblivians,
Donald Byrd,
China Crisis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
World's Most,
Rotary Connection,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Colin Newman,
Cybotron,
Eric Copeland,
The Grass Roots,
Derrick Morgan,
Donny Hathaway,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Howard Jones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ken Boothe,
Bauhaus,
Public Image Ltd.,
Icehouse,
Junior Murvin,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Invisible,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swell Maps,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
The Move,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bluetip,
The Fuzztones,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nico,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Agent Orange,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.