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 Mauritius and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 organ 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 Marcia Griffiths to the rock 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
Q and Not U,
Donny Hathaway,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Star Department,
Anakelly,
Radiohead,
China Crisis,
The Monks,
Lower 48,
Kaleidoscope,
Technova,
Suicide,
The Trojans,
Jawbox,
The Toasters,
Todd Rundgren,
Soul Sonic Force,
Althea and Donna,
Gastr Del Sol,
Schoolly D,
Isaac Hayes,
Rites of Spring,
48th St. Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Minny Pops,
Fatback Band,
Soul II Soul,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Neon Judgement,
Subhumans,
Fad Gadget,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Swans,
The Real Kids,
X-102,
The Modern Lovers,
The American Breed,
Groovy Waters,
The Techniques,
The Durutti Column,
Mantronix,
T.S.O.L.,
10cc,
Fat Boys,
Main Source,
the Human League,
The Victims,
The Kinks,
Deepchord,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Negative Approach,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cowsills,
Black Sheep,
Sällskapet,
Public Enemy,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.