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 Burkina and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 F. McDonald to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
the Human League,
Cheater Slicks,
AZ,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Victims,
Von Mondo,
X-Ray Spex,
CMW,
The Smiths,
Robert Hood,
Oneida,
The Human League,
Liliput,
Colin Newman,
Byron Stingily,
The Velvet Underground,
Nik Kershaw,
Jeff Mills,
Peter & Gordon,
R.M.O.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Monks,
Pantaleimon,
Grey Daturas,
Mark Hollis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nils Olav,
KRS-One,
Rapeman,
Lungfish,
Andrew Hill,
The Doobie Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
New Order,
Q and Not U,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris & Cosey,
The Slits,
Ralphi Rosario,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rakim,
The Monochrome Set,
Bizarre Inc.,
L. Decosne,
Harry Pussy,
Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Seeds,
Monolake,
Ultra Naté,
Boredoms,
New Age Steppers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Hot Snakes,
Cymande,
Roxette,
Ohio Players,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.