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 East Timor and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin 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 Con Funk Shun to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Excepter,
10cc,
Susan Cadogan,
DNA,
The Mojo Men,
Tomorrow,
Panda Bear,
Blake Baxter,
Altered Images,
Man Parrish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
Harmonia,
FM Einheit,
Livin' Joy,
Hardrive,
The Blues Magoos,
Eden Ahbez,
Quadrant,
Qualms,
The Count Five,
Unwound,
the Germs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Albert Ayler,
Suicide,
Jesper Dahlback,
Parry Music,
Arthur Verocai,
New York Dolls,
Average White Band,
Hot Snakes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ponytail,
Quando Quango,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tim Buckley,
Con Funk Shun,
Absolute Body Control,
Heaven 17,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Glenn Branca,
The Real Kids,
The Victims,
Ludus,
Japan,
Peter and Kerry,
Saccharine Trust,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Byron Stingily,
The Doors,
Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Connie Case,
Aswad,
The Techniques,
Johnny Osbourne,
Anthony Braxton,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.