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 Guinea and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 organ 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 Grauzone to the electroclash 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 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 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eric Copeland,
Reuben Wilson,
The Vogues,
The Trojans,
Interpol,
The Doobie Brothers,
Quantec,
New York Dolls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Toasters,
Jandek,
Groovy Waters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Womack,
The Black Dice,
Make Up,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Thee Headcoats,
Crooked Eye,
Dennis Brown,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Donald Byrd,
Duran Duran,
Alton Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
Accadde A,
Deadbeat,
Sister Nancy,
Q and Not U,
Ken Boothe,
Livin' Joy,
DNA,
The Monks,
Bluetip,
F. McDonald,
The Gladiators,
The Velvet Underground,
The J.B.'s,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cybotron,
Neu!,
Man Eating Sloth,
R.M.O.,
John Foxx,
Darondo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cymande,
Lungfish,
The Saints,
Maurizio,
Chrome,
Eden Ahbez,
Desert Stars,
Popol Vuh,
The Flesh Eaters,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oneida,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.