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 Micronesia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 ABBA to the jazz 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Bush Tetras,
Roxy Music,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Tubeway Army,
Erasure,
Niagra,
Derrick May,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eli Mardock,
Jacques Brel,
Funky Four + One,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Trumans Water,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
FM Einheit,
The Barracudas,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Arthur Verocai,
H. Thieme,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nation of Ulysses,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tres Demented,
Laurel Aitken,
Harmonia,
Make Up,
Fat Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sound,
Can,
Colin Newman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
PIL,
Radiohead,
Eddi Front,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cecil Taylor,
Audionom,
F. McDonald,
Darondo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Main Source,
Crime,
Television Personalities,
The Litter,
Scrapy,
Brothers Johnson,
Rekid,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Tremeloes,
Dual Sessions,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Prince Buster,
The Five Americans,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.