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 St Kitts & Nevis and from New York.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Deakin to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Marmalade,
Black Sheep,
Technova,
Brass Construction,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fall,
Clear Light,
10cc,
Donny Hathaway,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camberwell Now,
Gang Green,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bad Manners,
Blossom Toes,
The Slackers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
D'Angelo,
Jeff Lynne,
the Germs,
Lyres,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
La Düsseldorf,
Zero Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
Animal Collective,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Black Dice,
Panda Bear,
The Golliwogs,
The Moleskins,
Sexual Harrassment,
Slave,
Rites of Spring,
Darondo,
John Cale,
CMW,
David Axelrod,
David Bowie,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dennis Brown,
UT,
Tommy Roe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
MDC,
Gong,
Tim Buckley,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Frankie Knuckles,
This Heat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Duran Duran,
The Fuzztones,
Flipper,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radiohead,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.