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 Poland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grauzone to the techno 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Bush Tetras,
The Tremeloes,
The Smiths,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nico,
Junior Murvin,
Can,
Magma,
Bobby Womack,
The Angels of Light,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bill Wells,
Kerri Chandler,
the Bar-Kays,
The Dead C,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Robert Wyatt,
Pulsallama,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Zero Boys,
Hardrive,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
Erykah Badu,
Faraquet,
Scratch Acid,
The Velvet Underground,
Lungfish,
Soul II Soul,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fuzztones,
Technova,
Slave,
It's A Beautiful Day,
June Days,
Hot Snakes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Donald Byrd,
James White and The Blacks,
Alice Coltrane,
Vladislav Delay,
John Foxx,
DJ Sneak,
Mandrill,
Yazoo,
Echospace,
Arab on Radar,
Bad Manners,
Ronnie Foster,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.