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 Malta and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Josef K to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro 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 rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
La Düsseldorf,
Leonard Cohen,
Danielle Patucci,
Dennis Brown,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sandy B,
Janne Schatter,
Connie Case,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Misunderstood,
48th St. Collective,
B.T. Express,
Television,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MDC,
Nik Kershaw,
John Cale,
Hasil Adkins,
T.S.O.L.,
Wire,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Spoonie Gee,
Supertramp,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
A Certain Ratio,
Bill Wells,
James White and The Blacks,
The Names,
Ronan,
Bush Tetras,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Circle Jerks,
Camberwell Now,
Procol Harum,
Ultra Naté,
Fluxion,
Dark Day,
Peter and Kerry,
Mo-Dettes,
Kaleidoscope,
Little Man,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Judy Mowatt,
Lucky Dragons,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Skaos,
Parry Music,
China Crisis,
L. Decosne,
The American Breed,
Aloha Tigers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Angels of Light,
The Gun Club,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-102,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.