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 Germany and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 8 Eyed Spy 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar 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 linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
X-Ray Spex,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Association,
Inner City,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scott Walker,
10cc,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Matthew Halsall,
Maleditus Sound,
Black Pus,
James White and The Blacks,
Minutemen,
the Slits,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Letta Mbulu,
Easy Going,
Deepchord,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mr. Review,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül II,
Spoonie Gee,
Sugar Minott,
Bootsy Collins,
CMW,
Circle Jerks,
Hoover,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Litter,
Sixth Finger,
Franke,
The Fortunes,
Kerri Chandler,
Pulsallama,
Bad Manners,
DJ Sneak,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
X-102,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camberwell Now,
The Martian,
The Walker Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Audionom,
Nick Fraelich,
Basic Channel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Neil Young,
Lakeside,
Deakin,
Eric Copeland,
Underground Resistance,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantytec,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.