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 India and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rotary Connection to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Michelle Simonal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lightning Bolt,
Barrington Levy,
Sparks,
X-Ray Spex,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lungfish,
Jerry's Kids,
Newcleus,
Minny Pops,
Ice-T,
Parry Music,
Swans,
JFA,
Junior Murvin,
Cal Tjader,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris Corsano,
Chrome,
Wire,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Anakelly,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Accadde A,
Stiv Bators,
Fatback Band,
The Residents,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deakin,
The Human League,
Funky Four + One,
Bobby Womack,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Matthew Bourne,
Motorama,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Agent Orange,
Boogie Down Productions,
Average White Band,
Al Stewart,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Delta 5,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Moon,
Laurel Aitken,
Kas Product,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marine Girls,
Agitation Free,
The Cure,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
New Age Steppers,
B.T. Express,
June Days,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.