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 Serbia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soft Machine to the grime 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a clarinet 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 arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
EPMD,
Zapp,
Charles Mingus,
The Mummies,
Joe Finger,
CMW,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marvin Gaye,
Young Marble Giants,
Danielle Patucci,
Gabor Szabo,
Sam Rivers,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun Ra,
Fela Kuti,
Panda Bear,
Smog,
ABBA,
Stereo Dub,
Todd Terry,
Newcleus,
Piero Umiliani,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Urselle,
R.M.O.,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Red Krayola,
Y Pants,
Essential Logic,
Inner City,
Jerry's Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kayak,
Sex Pistols,
Aswad,
The Gap Band,
Pole,
Ituana,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flipper,
Simply Red,
Los Fastidios,
Yaz,
The Golliwogs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
A Certain Ratio,
Thee Headcoats,
Pantaleimon,
The Moody Blues,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Todd Rundgren,
Joy Division,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Shuggie Otis,
Parry Music,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.