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 Singapore 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 Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 grunge 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
The Neon Judgement,
The Smoke,
Althea and Donna,
Terry Callier,
Royal Trux,
U.S. Maple,
Bush Tetras,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Faraquet,
Banda Bassotti,
Minny Pops,
the Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Rhythm & Sound,
OOIOO,
Sugar Minott,
Pere Ubu,
Los Fastidios,
Clear Light,
Average White Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Interpol,
Amazonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Young Rascals,
Nik Kershaw,
Judy Mowatt,
Kevin Saunderson,
Qualms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
A Certain Ratio,
In Retrospect,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Nils Olav,
Roy Ayers,
Al Stewart,
Porter Ricks,
The Sound,
Symarip,
Bootsy Collins,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Zeros,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kurtis Blow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
T.S.O.L.,
Morten Harket,
Infiniti,
John Cale,
Fela Kuti,
Goldenarms,
Animal Collective,
Ornette Coleman,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.