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 United Kingdom and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Cameo to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Charles Mingus,
Electric Prunes,
Joey Negro,
Kayak,
Spandau Ballet,
Oblivians,
Don Cherry,
Excepter,
Technova,
Masters at Work,
MDC,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joensuu 1685,
Basic Channel,
Barry Ungar,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hoover,
The Count Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Morten Harket,
Rosa Yemen,
Nick Fraelich,
Brick,
Sister Nancy,
Motorama,
Henry Cow,
Sparks,
Quadrant,
Country Teasers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Public Enemy,
In Retrospect,
Donny Hathaway,
a-ha,
The Music Machine,
The United States of America,
The Cowsills,
Aaron Thompson,
The Walker Brothers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bootsy Collins,
The Smoke,
Hasil Adkins,
Sonic Youth,
Josef K,
The Moody Blues,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fear,
The Misunderstood,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Martian,
Connie Case,
Thee Headcoats,
Shuggie Otis,
The Searchers,
Banda Bassotti,
Isaac Hayes,
Marine Girls,
Traffic Nightmare,
World's Most,
Deadbeat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.