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 Bolivia 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Delon & Dalcan,
Liliput,
DJ Sneak,
Organ,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Intrusion,
Ponytail,
Flash Fearless,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cowsills,
Nas,
Prince Buster,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eli Mardock,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Agitation Free,
Zapp,
Judy Mowatt,
The Litter,
the Human League,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New Order,
The Stooges,
The Fugs,
Rekid,
June Days,
Hot Snakes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joe Smooth,
Ornette Coleman,
Barry Ungar,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
The Vogues,
Scrapy,
DJ Style,
Bob Dylan,
Duran Duran,
Subhumans,
Traffic Nightmare,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Clear Light,
Heaven 17,
Moss Icon,
Boz Scaggs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantaleimon,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.