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 Russia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar 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 AZ to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Cybotron,
Wasted Youth,
Fatback Band,
T.S.O.L.,
R.M.O.,
Newcleus,
DNA,
Bronski Beat,
The Grass Roots,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Misunderstood,
Matthew Halsall,
Depeche Mode,
The Buckinghams,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thompson Twins,
Goldenarms,
Hardrive,
Section 25,
The Neon Judgement,
Ultra Naté,
Anakelly,
Kayak,
Bootsy Collins,
Adolescents,
The Durutti Column,
Josef K,
Minny Pops,
Sun City Girls,
The Gories,
Jesper Dahlback,
Buzzcocks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deakin,
Clear Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Suicide,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Moon,
The New Christs,
The Skatalites,
ABC,
Jacob Miller,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pere Ubu,
Grauzone,
Qualms,
Lyres,
Intrusion,
John Coltrane,
the Bar-Kays,
David Bowie,
Lou Christie,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Swell Maps,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.