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 Micronesia and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 JFA to the punk 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
R.M.O.,
Ken Boothe,
Sam Rivers,
Arthur Verocai,
Danielle Patucci,
Thompson Twins,
David Bowie,
Terry Callier,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stetsasonic,
Circle Jerks,
Au Pairs,
The Smoke,
Groovy Waters,
Donny Hathaway,
Aloha Tigers,
Con Funk Shun,
Faraquet,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Japan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Happenings,
Tom Boy,
The Gap Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stockholm Monsters,
a-ha,
The Vogues,
Stereo Dub,
Albert Ayler,
Chrome,
Pulsallama,
The Sound,
Qualms,
The Remains,
Prince Buster,
Scan 7,
Basic Channel,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick May,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter and Kerry,
Kaleidoscope,
Byron Stingily,
The Associates,
The Black Dice,
Neil Young,
X-102,
Reuben Wilson,
F. McDonald,
Sixth Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
LL Cool J,
Motorama,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.