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 Thailand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 Bologna and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Toni Rubio to the crunk 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar 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 rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nas,
Stetsasonic,
the Germs,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Monks,
Eden Ahbez,
Max Romeo,
U.S. Maple,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Severed Heads,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Derrick May,
It's A Beautiful Day,
ABC,
The Human League,
Johnny Clarke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Busters,
Sun City Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lightning Bolt,
Derrick Morgan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sparks,
Rotary Connection,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cymande,
Das Ding,
PIL,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Black Dice,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Roy Ayers,
The New Christs,
Massinfluence,
Excepter,
Sandy B,
Niagra,
The American Breed,
The Blackbyrds,
Terry Callier,
Hardrive,
The Happenings,
Pantaleimon,
Barrington Levy,
The Star Department,
X-Ray Spex,
Lyres,
Slick Rick,
The Offenders,
H. Thieme,
Visage,
The Raincoats,
Kerri Chandler,
Avey Tare,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sight & Sound,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.