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 Greece and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Young Rascals to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a rhodes 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 theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Easy Going,
Hasil Adkins,
Groovy Waters,
The Remains,
48th St. Collective,
Arab on Radar,
Guru Guru,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quadrant,
The Motions,
The Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker,
Fear,
Mary Jane Girls,
Magazine,
Soulsonic Force,
Agent Orange,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fugs,
Symarip,
Dorothy Ashby,
Deakin,
The Offenders,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacob Miller,
The Blues Magoos,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scan 7,
UT,
Fat Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Oblivians,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wasted Youth,
Scrapy,
Soul II Soul,
Charles Mingus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Derrick May,
Hashim,
Trumans Water,
Dual Sessions,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
The Star Department,
Cecil Taylor,
The Residents,
Surgeon,
Fela Kuti,
Pussy Galore,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Excepter,
Tim Buckley,
Gang of Four,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.