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 Lithuania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 spring reverb 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 Severed Heads to the grunge 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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ohio Players,
Audionom,
Malaria!,
Lungfish,
Royal Trux,
Dennis Brown,
Sound Behaviour,
Organ,
The Beau Brummels,
MC5,
The Music Machine,
Zapp,
Gichy Dan,
Procol Harum,
Saccharine Trust,
The Count Five,
Trumans Water,
Soul II Soul,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yazoo,
Erasure,
Mantronix,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott Heron,
The J.B.'s,
Loose Ends,
Joyce Sims,
Ludus,
The Mojo Men,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pere Ubu,
The Gories,
Moss Icon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Derrick Morgan,
Warsaw,
Tropical Tobacco,
Vladislav Delay,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Y Pants,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
The Divine Comedy,
a-ha,
Rites of Spring,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soft Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
Davy DMX,
Basic Channel,
Metal Thangz,
Electric Prunes,
Smog,
The Cowsills,
Parry Music,
Slick Rick,
Icehouse,
New Order,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.