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 Chile and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Groovy Waters to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Au Pairs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Sneak,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Danielle Patucci,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
The Last Poets,
AZ,
Jeru the Damaja,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mr. Review,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Alison Limerick,
Easy Going,
The Index,
Icehouse,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Buckinghams,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gladiators,
Minny Pops,
Eddi Front,
The Monks,
Sun City Girls,
John Cale,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sixth Finger,
Lakeside,
Grauzone,
the Association,
Marshall Jefferson,
Reuben Wilson,
Terry Callier,
Buzzcocks,
Flash Fearless,
Hasil Adkins,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scott Walker,
Chris Corsano,
The Fuzztones,
Eric B and Rakim,
Procol Harum,
Yazoo,
The Litter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Al Stewart,
Stiv Bators,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Davy DMX,
Roger Hodgson,
Schoolly D,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.