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 Cuba and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe 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 Carl Craig to the disco 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gang Gang Dance,
It's A Beautiful Day,
James White and The Blacks,
The Move,
the Fania All-Stars,
Urselle,
Matthew Halsall,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Electric Prunes,
Jimmy McGriff,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Monolake,
Brand Nubian,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scott Walker,
Deakin,
Lyres,
Schoolly D,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rekid,
The Pop Group,
Camberwell Now,
Danielle Patucci,
Crash Course in Science,
Delta 5,
D'Angelo,
Spoonie Gee,
Beasts of Bourbon,
One Last Wish,
Siglo XX,
Underground Resistance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang Starr,
The Golliwogs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joensuu 1685,
Morten Harket,
Make Up,
Country Teasers,
Ultravox,
The Dirtbombs,
Bauhaus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul Sonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Germs,
Bad Manners,
F. McDonald,
Excepter,
Hardrive,
Nick Fraelich,
Graham Central Station,
cv313,
Anakelly,
Reuben Wilson,
Ronan,
Dennis Brown,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.