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 Belgium and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ 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 The Monks to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics 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?
cv313,
Audionom,
Tom Boy,
Underground Resistance,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Judy Mowatt,
a-ha,
Al Stewart,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Technova,
Lucky Dragons,
Isaac Hayes,
The Leaves,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Accadde A,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wasted Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
The Slackers,
Andrew Hill,
Simply Red,
Urselle,
China Crisis,
Cal Tjader,
Deakin,
Wally Richardson,
Bang On A Can,
Scion,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Youth Brigade,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Prince Buster,
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Yaz,
Section 25,
Livin' Joy,
Slick Rick,
Deadbeat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Raincoats,
Sound Behaviour,
Talk Talk,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Hood,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dirtbombs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
The Move,
Monolake,
The Stooges,
Tommy Roe,
Sparks,
In Retrospect,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Au Pairs,
Blossom Toes,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.