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 Turkmenistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 R.M.O. to the dance 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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Silicon Teens,
Rekid,
Scientists,
Intrusion,
Isaac Hayes,
Television,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Skatalites,
Tommy Roe,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bill Near,
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
Radiopuhelimet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
Babytalk,
The Young Rascals,
John Lydon,
The Gap Band,
The Tremeloes,
Marc Almond,
Bootsy Collins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Dead C,
John Holt,
Ultra Naté,
The Blackbyrds,
Basic Channel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cal Tjader,
Drexciya,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Heaven 17,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Leaves,
Inner City,
Drive Like Jehu,
Can,
Dead Boys,
Marmalade,
Rapeman,
The Pretty Things,
the Normal,
Eve St. Jones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ossler,
Alison Limerick,
Parry Music,
Lucky Dragons,
Tropical Tobacco,
Black Flag,
Yazoo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minor Threat,
Electric Prunes,
Cymande,
Country Teasers,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.