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 Peru and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the jazz 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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord 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 an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Ronnie Foster,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Altered Images,
Faraquet,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Minny Pops,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Christie,
The Beau Brummels,
Lakeside,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nico,
Sound Behaviour,
New Order,
The Saints,
Crime,
Talk Talk,
KRS-One,
Agent Orange,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Skatalites,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultra Naté,
Rakim,
The Electric Prunes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Unrelated Segments,
Dead Boys,
Severed Heads,
China Crisis,
The Slackers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Sneak,
Alton Ellis,
Joe Finger,
T. Rex,
Patti Smith,
Dorothy Ashby,
Donald Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Maleditus Sound,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sandy B,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Shuggie Otis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jawbox,
Camberwell Now,
Minor Threat,
Guru Guru,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brick,
Oblivians,
Roxy Music,
Q65,
Pulsallama,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.