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 Mongolia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Leonard Cohen to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Shoche,
the Normal,
Hoover,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oblivians,
Franke,
Camberwell Now,
Ultravox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fugazi,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Finger,
Ludus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Knickerbockers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fat Boys,
LL Cool J,
Vainqueur,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jacques Brel,
Graham Central Station,
The Gap Band,
Funky Four + One,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
UT,
Cal Tjader,
Zapp,
Wings,
Albert Ayler,
Supertramp,
Metal Thangz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DJ Style,
Faust,
New Order,
Josef K,
Wasted Youth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobby Womack,
The Neon Judgement,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeff Lynne,
Eric Dolphy,
Bronski Beat,
Ituana,
Cluster,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry's Kids,
DJ Sneak,
June of 44,
The Toasters,
Underground Resistance,
The Busters,
Malaria!,
Nas,
Quadrant,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.