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 Saudi Arabia and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sound Behaviour to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
The Walker Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Accadde A,
the Bar-Kays,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Motions,
ABC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pulsallama,
Sandy B,
Eric Dolphy,
Yusef Lateef,
Patti Smith,
Public Enemy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marshall Jefferson,
Guru Guru,
Fela Kuti,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Derrick May,
Average White Band,
Eli Mardock,
June Days,
David McCallum,
This Heat,
Althea and Donna,
Barbara Tucker,
Lightning Bolt,
Whodini,
Electric Prunes,
The Grass Roots,
Crash Course in Science,
MDC,
The Star Department,
The Martian,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jacques Brel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rosa Yemen,
The Kinks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Slackers,
Soft Cell,
Arab on Radar,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Blues Magoos,
The Wake,
Negative Approach,
Archie Shepp,
Stereo Dub,
Dark Day,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jerry's Kids,
Robert Görl,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.