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 Kuwait and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bobby Byrd to the grime 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Big Daddy Kane,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Electric Prunes,
Maurizio,
Babytalk,
Todd Rundgren,
Pagans,
Cheater Slicks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gichy Dan,
Ohio Players,
Iggy Pop,
Glenn Branca,
Livin' Joy,
The Monochrome Set,
Make Up,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed,
Stereo Dub,
The Victims,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Smiths,
Matthew Halsall,
Lakeside,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
June Days,
Harmonia,
Fluxion,
Negative Approach,
Isaac Hayes,
Jacob Miller,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Birthday Party,
Joensuu 1685,
The Wake,
Cluster,
Crime,
Mark Hollis,
Rites of Spring,
The Black Dice,
Janne Schatter,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Blues Magoos,
Soul II Soul,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Real Kids,
Bill Wells,
Tropical Tobacco,
Agitation Free,
Suburban Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
Mission of Burma,
Duran Duran,
Dual Sessions,
The Vogues,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.