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 Colombia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Thee Headcoats to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Severed Heads. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Cameo,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cramps,
Arcadia,
Ossler,
The Angels of Light,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Youth Brigade,
Bootsy Collins,
The Trojans,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Second Layer,
The Toasters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Motions,
The Move,
Monks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warren Ellis,
Hoover,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
Johnny Osbourne,
Barry Ungar,
Echospace,
OOIOO,
the Slits,
the Swans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jacques Brel,
Roxette,
EPMD,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Slick Rick,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scan 7,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ronan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Amon Düül II,
Section 25,
Ten City,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marshall Jefferson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mars,
Warsaw,
The Residents,
Drexciya,
Arthur Verocai,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Buckinghams,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Zapp,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crispian St. Peters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.