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 Yemen and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 DJ Sneak to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a theremin and a guitar 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 güiro and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Lightning Bolt,
Royal Trux,
Dennis Brown,
Iggy Pop,
Spandau Ballet,
Kayak,
Maleditus Sound,
The Index,
The Saints,
Delta 5,
Eden Ahbez,
Brothers Johnson,
Easy Going,
ABC,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sam Rivers,
The Angels of Light,
Groovy Waters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fela Kuti,
K-Klass,
Rhythm & Sound,
Minutemen,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Harpers Bizarre,
Minnie Riperton,
Jeff Lynne,
Reuben Wilson,
Stereo Dub,
Warren Ellis,
T. Rex,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tim Buckley,
Monolake,
The Moleskins,
Cymande,
Malaria!,
Hasil Adkins,
Monks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Massinfluence,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Q65,
Visage,
Magma,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
Kevin Saunderson,
Erykah Badu,
Cameo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sandy B,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter & Gordon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronan,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.