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 Serbia and from Halifax.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
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 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 Tom Verlaine 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 The Misunderstood to the rock 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
FM Einheit,
The Black Dice,
Von Mondo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eli Mardock,
Nico,
The Names,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tom Boy,
Deepchord,
Radiohead,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Henry Cow,
Dual Sessions,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Smiths,
The Monochrome Set,
The New Christs,
Magma,
Mandrill,
The Zeros,
Derrick May,
Ice-T,
Bobby Byrd,
Flamin' Groovies,
Robert Görl,
The Blackbyrds,
Gichy Dan,
MDC,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Smoke,
Glenn Branca,
Amazonics,
Boredoms,
Khruangbin,
Easy Going,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rod Modell,
Stereo Dub,
Animal Collective,
Fela Kuti,
Pere Ubu,
Donny Hathaway,
Yazoo,
Eric Dolphy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pantytec,
Nick Fraelich,
Yellowson,
The Stooges,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Young Rascals,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Patti Smith,
Kaleidoscope,
Reagan Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.