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 St Lucia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet 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 Con Funk Shun to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Kerri Chandler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Steve Hackett,
Reagan Youth,
Slave,
The Searchers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Warsaw,
The Cure,
Cluster,
Mandrill,
the Bar-Kays,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monolake,
Lungfish,
Tres Demented,
Easy Going,
Sparks,
Fatback Band,
Moss Icon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soft Machine,
Monks,
Kaleidoscope,
Marshall Jefferson,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed,
The Toasters,
The Trojans,
Yaz,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Charles Mingus,
Basic Channel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stockholm Monsters,
Infiniti,
The Gap Band,
The Cowsills,
Iggy Pop,
Lalann,
The Gun Club,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Human League,
Vainqueur,
The Tremeloes,
Minor Threat,
Japan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Big Daddy Kane,
Technova,
Franke,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Red Krayola,
Chris Corsano,
Model 500,
Tom Boy,
Joey Negro,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.