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 Netherlands and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Inner City to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a 808 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 güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
Agent Orange,
Danielle Patucci,
The Kinks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Toasters,
Royal Trux,
Dual Sessions,
Sex Pistols,
DJ Sneak,
Lakeside,
The Neon Judgement,
Delta 5,
Pagans,
The Standells,
Sound Behaviour,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Knickerbockers,
Warren Ellis,
48th St. Collective,
The Stooges,
Black Flag,
This Heat,
The Music Machine,
Ituana,
Joe Finger,
The Monks,
Lower 48,
The Moleskins,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Move,
Swell Maps,
Harmonia,
The Skatalites,
The Star Department,
Lyres,
Con Funk Shun,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Byrd,
Minnie Riperton,
Scion,
Barbara Tucker,
Ossler,
Tres Demented,
Banda Bassotti,
Silicon Teens,
The Litter,
Crash Course in Science,
Colin Newman,
Von Mondo,
Roxy Music,
The Gap Band,
The Motions,
The Associates,
Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
Deadbeat,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.