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 Gambia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Rotary Connection to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ 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 snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
DJ Sneak,
Toni Rubio,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter & Gordon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moody Blues,
Mad Mike,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Das Ding,
Au Pairs,
Dead Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
Carl Craig,
10cc,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Piero Umiliani,
Nas,
Warsaw,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Cramps,
The Beau Brummels,
The Toasters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Siglo XX,
FM Einheit,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Anthony Braxton,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Young Rascals,
The Barracudas,
Subhumans,
Babytalk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Mojo Men,
Aural Exciters,
Radiohead,
New Order,
Moebius,
Eric Copeland,
The Fortunes,
Morten Harket,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Don Cherry,
Sonny Sharrock,
June of 44,
Patti Smith,
Con Funk Shun,
Deakin,
Cymande,
Dual Sessions,
Swell Maps,
The United States of America,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.