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 Georgia and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fugazi to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
The Gap Band,
Joy Division,
China Crisis,
DJ Style,
The United States of America,
Jandek,
The Tremeloes,
Peter and Kerry,
UT,
Camberwell Now,
Drexciya,
Nico,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radiohead,
Rites of Spring,
Byron Stingily,
Yazoo,
Deadbeat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
ABC,
The Stooges,
H. Thieme,
Con Funk Shun,
Marvin Gaye,
Bizarre Inc.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Freddie Wadling,
Essential Logic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wally Richardson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Grey Daturas,
Hot Snakes,
Moss Icon,
Main Source,
E-Dancer,
Magma,
The Associates,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kas Product,
X-101,
Buzzcocks,
Public Enemy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lungfish,
R.M.O.,
Monolake,
June Days,
The Raincoats,
Matthew Bourne,
Rakim,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kayak,
Vladislav Delay,
Stetsasonic,
The Beau Brummels,
Dead Boys,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.