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 Tanzania and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Groovy Waters to the rap 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 '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 The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Procol Harum,
Sound Behaviour,
Groovy Waters,
Crime,
The Fortunes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barry Ungar,
Lee Hazlewood,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Normal,
The Names,
Eve St. Jones,
John Coltrane,
Outsiders,
Darondo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Shadows of Knight,
OOIOO,
Gong,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
The Raincoats,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pet Shop Boys,
Circle Jerks,
Main Source,
Eric Copeland,
Robert Görl,
Hoover,
Cecil Taylor,
Alton Ellis,
X-102,
Agent Orange,
Rhythm & Sound,
Half Japanese,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Avey Tare,
Electric Prunes,
Faraquet,
Babytalk,
Sugar Minott,
Fear,
Tom Boy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Minor Threat,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Icehouse,
48th St. Collective,
Nirvana,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fire Engines,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Minnie Riperton,
June Days,
Tears for Fears,
The Smiths,
The Vogues,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.