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 Brazil and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Motorama to the rock 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Misunderstood,
The Toasters,
The Angels of Light,
Todd Rundgren,
the Normal,
Marine Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roger Hodgson,
Bush Tetras,
Parry Music,
Wally Richardson,
China Crisis,
Average White Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Raincoats,
the Fania All-Stars,
Drexciya,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joyce Sims,
Porter Ricks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David McCallum,
Althea and Donna,
Visage,
X-101,
Malaria!,
Sonic Youth,
Thompson Twins,
Funkadelic,
The Slackers,
John Foxx,
Bill Near,
Fatback Band,
Niagra,
John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Organ,
The Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Wake,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
These Immortal Souls,
Franke,
Robert Wyatt,
Eddi Front,
Boredoms,
The Mummies,
Ultravox,
Liliput,
Godley & Creme,
Jesper Dahlback,
Don Cherry,
Bill Wells,
Roxette,
The Leaves,
Depeche Mode,
Glambeats Corp.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.