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 Nigeria and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pole to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe 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 synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Blancmange,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bluetip,
Howard Jones,
The Smoke,
Skaos,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harry Pussy,
The Fugs,
Flipper,
Qualms,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crooked Eye,
Ossler,
Laurel Aitken,
Gang Starr,
Roxette,
the Fania All-Stars,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Swell Maps,
the Normal,
Soft Cell,
Pole,
Bauhaus,
Cameo,
The Music Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Subhumans,
ABC,
Youth Brigade,
Malaria!,
the Soft Cell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Yusef Lateef,
Little Man,
The Monochrome Set,
the Slits,
R.M.O.,
Metal Thangz,
The Wake,
Stetsasonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Dark Day,
Basic Channel,
Pierre Henry,
Hot Snakes,
D'Angelo,
Cymande,
The Martian,
Pantaleimon,
Ornette Coleman,
Model 500,
Boredoms,
DNA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Stereo Dub,
Oneida,
A Certain Ratio,
The Raincoats,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.