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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Pretty Things to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a snare 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 mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Sarah Menescal,
Main Source,
The Black Dice,
UT,
Groovy Waters,
Agitation Free,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Wings,
Khruangbin,
Pagans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Flipper,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lalann,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Robert Görl,
Jesper Dahlback,
EPMD,
Jeru the Damaja,
Niagra,
the Slits,
Gastr Del Sol,
Heaven 17,
Pierre Henry,
The Neon Judgement,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Livin' Joy,
The Selecter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Morten Harket,
Black Moon,
Kenny Larkin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camberwell Now,
Young Marble Giants,
Gabor Szabo,
John Lydon,
Animal Collective,
Kurtis Blow,
Alison Limerick,
Q and Not U,
The Skatalites,
The New Christs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun City Girls,
the Normal,
Supertramp,
Trumans Water,
Ossler,
The Walker Brothers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barry Ungar,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.