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 Singapore and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lightning Bolt to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum 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 sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Babytalk,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DNA,
Eric Dolphy,
Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
Prince Buster,
Anakelly,
The Martian,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang Green,
The Kinks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soft Machine,
Joy Division,
Yazoo,
This Heat,
Lungfish,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Schoolly D,
Joyce Sims,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Vogues,
Zapp,
The Move,
Rod Modell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Todd Rundgren,
The Toasters,
The Neon Judgement,
Grey Daturas,
K-Klass,
Pulsallama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scientists,
Eve St. Jones,
Robert Görl,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sister Nancy,
Brothers Johnson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Quando Quango,
Easy Going,
David McCallum,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Suburban Knight,
Freddie Wadling,
The Modern Lovers,
Lyres,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Section 25,
Joensuu 1685,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.