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 Ukraine and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Arab on Radar to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
David Axelrod,
Erasure,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soft Cell,
Patti Smith,
Spoonie Gee,
Chris Corsano,
The Mojo Men,
David McCallum,
Pole,
Godley & Creme,
Suburban Knight,
Loose Ends,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ice-T,
DNA,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yaz,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang of Four,
Roger Hodgson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sparks,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC,
Liliput,
kango's stein massive,
AZ,
Inner City,
The Angels of Light,
New York Dolls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Matthew Halsall,
Delon & Dalcan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
Sound Behaviour,
These Immortal Souls,
Zero Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Morten Harket,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Skatalites,
The Raincoats,
Hashim,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cymande,
The Monochrome Set,
Skarface,
Skriet,
Procol Harum,
The Seeds,
Black Flag,
The Star Department,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Johnny Clarke,
Alison Limerick,
Soul II Soul,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock 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.