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 Poland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin 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 theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gories,
Joey Negro,
Letta Mbulu,
Swell Maps,
Charles Mingus,
Kenny Larkin,
The Monochrome Set,
Delta 5,
Mo-Dettes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lebanon Hanover,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donny Hathaway,
Boz Scaggs,
the Soft Cell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mark Hollis,
Robert Görl,
Roger Hodgson,
Los Fastidios,
The Remains,
Max Romeo,
Ken Boothe,
a-ha,
Tomorrow,
The Electric Prunes,
Neu!,
Davy DMX,
The Dead C,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soft Cell,
Stiv Bators,
Accadde A,
R.M.O.,
Funky Four + One,
Cybotron,
Lakeside,
Heaven 17,
Brick,
Nico,
Can,
Cymande,
Gang Starr,
The Leaves,
The Velvet Underground,
Procol Harum,
Sandy B,
Q and Not U,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harmonia,
Janne Schatter,
LL Cool J,
Infiniti,
Eurythmics,
Barbara Tucker,
Cluster,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.