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 Saudi Arabia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Shadows of Knight to the dance 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Royal Trux,
Alton Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
The Moody Blues,
The Doors,
Charles Mingus,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Alison Limerick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Residents,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Trumans Water,
China Crisis,
Eurythmics,
The Star Department,
Khruangbin,
Magma,
Yellowson,
Max Romeo,
Carl Craig,
The Associates,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Searchers,
Gang Green,
The Monks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Panda Bear,
Fad Gadget,
Roy Ayers,
Aural Exciters,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bob Dylan,
Buzzcocks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wasted Youth,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
8 Eyed Spy,
Massinfluence,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Livin' Joy,
World's Most,
Dead Boys,
Aswad,
Unwound,
Laurel Aitken,
Minnie Riperton,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mo-Dettes,
Nik Kershaw,
the Germs,
Mars,
The Detroit Cobras,
Davy DMX,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.