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 Honduras and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 June of 44 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer 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 organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grauzone,
Freddie Wadling,
Underground Resistance,
Dark Day,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ludus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Busters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Shuggie Otis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stereo Dub,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bauhaus,
Basic Channel,
Tears for Fears,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Barbara Tucker,
X-102,
Panda Bear,
Funkadelic,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
A Certain Ratio,
the Sonics,
Leonard Cohen,
The Black Dice,
EPMD,
Kayak,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dennis Brown,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Donny Hathaway,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Animal Collective,
Lee Hazlewood,
Andrew Hill,
Aswad,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Names,
Althea and Donna,
Ohio Players,
Nas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kaleidoscope,
Mars,
K-Klass,
Joey Negro,
The Slackers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Byron Stingily,
Arcadia,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.