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 Antigua and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lalo Schifrin to the funk 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro 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 mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Sugar Minott,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Zeros,
Jerry's Kids,
Rufus Thomas,
the Association,
Avey Tare,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wolf Eyes,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bang On A Can,
Flipper,
Patti Smith,
Gong,
June Days,
the Soft Cell,
Von Mondo,
the Slits,
Glambeats Corp.,
Minor Threat,
Fad Gadget,
Letta Mbulu,
The Trojans,
Sandy B,
Schoolly D,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Public Enemy,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Smoke,
Sex Pistols,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pagans,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Byrd,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pantaleimon,
Gabor Szabo,
Mo-Dettes,
Black Bananas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Albert Ayler,
Bill Near,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ohio Players,
World's Most,
The Evens,
Traffic Nightmare,
Slick Rick,
Audionom,
The Slackers,
Maleditus Sound,
Nils Olav,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The United States of America,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camberwell Now,
The Divine Comedy,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.