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 Macedonia and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ronnie Foster to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
The Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
MDC,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Lydon,
The Mojo Men,
the Sonics,
The Fugs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eden Ahbez,
Funky Four + One,
Youth Brigade,
The Golliwogs,
L. Decosne,
DJ Sneak,
Gang Starr,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scan 7,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ituana,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Saints,
Fat Boys,
Tears for Fears,
Stockholm Monsters,
Half Japanese,
The New Christs,
New York Dolls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Vogues,
Gong,
The Offenders,
U.S. Maple,
The Count Five,
Minny Pops,
Eric Dolphy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Quantec,
Siglo XX,
Fugazi,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mantronix,
Guru Guru,
Pantaleimon,
The Blues Magoos,
Wally Richardson,
Neu!,
Negative Approach,
The Sound,
the Association,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Pus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Janne Schatter,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.