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 Lesotho and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Colin Newman to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
Aural Exciters,
The Real Kids,
Inner City,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers,
Todd Terry,
Symarip,
Ice-T,
Reagan Youth,
New York Dolls,
Isaac Hayes,
Pole,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pop Group,
the Swans,
kango's stein massive,
LL Cool J,
Alphaville,
John Cale,
Average White Band,
The Toasters,
Magma,
Chris Corsano,
Cluster,
Erasure,
Dawn Penn,
Brass Construction,
Avey Tare,
The Divine Comedy,
Trumans Water,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Radio Birdman,
The Raincoats,
Soft Machine,
Thompson Twins,
Ken Boothe,
the Bar-Kays,
Grandmaster Flash,
Massinfluence,
The Buckinghams,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sarah Menescal,
Outsiders,
Alton Ellis,
The Skatalites,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
48th St. Collective,
The Kinks,
The Flesh Eaters,
OOIOO,
X-102,
Severed Heads,
Yazoo,
The Blackbyrds,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Niagra,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.