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 Egypt and from New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
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 arpeggiator 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 Loose Ends to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Fear,
Parry Music,
The Leaves,
The Red Krayola,
Camouflage,
The Black Dice,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Young Rascals,
Guru Guru,
Supertramp,
Flash Fearless,
Al Stewart,
Janne Schatter,
KRS-One,
Fugazi,
Country Teasers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wings,
Cameo,
Roy Ayers,
Mantronix,
Scrapy,
Japan,
Todd Terry,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül,
Soul Sonic Force,
Basic Channel,
Thompson Twins,
The Kinks,
Radiohead,
The Music Machine,
Shuggie Otis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Spandau Ballet,
Wally Richardson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lower 48,
Gang Green,
Desert Stars,
Trumans Water,
Cybotron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ludus,
The Names,
Grey Daturas,
Banda Bassotti,
Main Source,
Reuben Wilson,
Joensuu 1685,
MC5,
Depeche Mode,
Make Up,
Joe Finger,
Second Layer,
The Moleskins,
Rosa Yemen,
Kool Moe Dee,
La Düsseldorf,
Babytalk,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.