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 Thailand 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Agitation Free to the funk 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
The Raincoats,
Jacob Miller,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Cale,
Glenn Branca,
Vainqueur,
The Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pussy Galore,
Dual Sessions,
The Knickerbockers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Masters at Work,
Half Japanese,
Altered Images,
New Order,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sonic Youth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Average White Band,
T. Rex,
The Count Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Essential Logic,
DJ Sneak,
Ten City,
Fatback Band,
Lou Christie,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The American Breed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
Sparks,
Lungfish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lakeside,
Procol Harum,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
John Lydon,
Dave Gahan,
Josef K,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Inner City,
The Moleskins,
Amon Düül,
Bauhaus,
The Blues Magoos,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter and Kerry,
Robert Görl,
Yaz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Martian,
The Offenders,
Max Romeo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rites of Spring,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.