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 Mali and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ludus to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Kayak,
Das Ding,
Fugazi,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masters at Work,
Blake Baxter,
Rosa Yemen,
Steve Hackett,
Stiv Bators,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barry Ungar,
Faust,
The Barracudas,
Tommy Roe,
Panda Bear,
David Bowie,
David McCallum,
Darondo,
Whodini,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Rod Modell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Davy DMX,
Ken Boothe,
Minutemen,
The American Breed,
Unrelated Segments,
Eric Copeland,
Susan Cadogan,
Sandy B,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABBA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
R.M.O.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Barclay James Harvest,
Danielle Patucci,
Scott Walker,
Chrome,
Radio Birdman,
Desert Stars,
Siglo XX,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alphaville,
Organ,
Mo-Dettes,
Camberwell Now,
Marine Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Spandau Ballet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Aloha Tigers,
The Music Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rekid,
Technova,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.