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 El Salvador and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 JFA to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Matthew Halsall,
Funky Four + One,
Livin' Joy,
R.M.O.,
Shuggie Otis,
Minor Threat,
Chrome,
The Move,
Rosa Yemen,
Adolescents,
Brand Nubian,
Rotary Connection,
Wolf Eyes,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Cale,
Television Personalities,
Parry Music,
L. Decosne,
David Bowie,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Monks,
The Vogues,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Animal Collective,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Danielle Patucci,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sun City Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
Pussy Galore,
Jacques Brel,
Masters at Work,
Thee Headcoats,
Jeff Mills,
Leonard Cohen,
X-Ray Spex,
H. Thieme,
AZ,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Public Enemy,
Tomorrow,
48th St. Collective,
Dead Boys,
Pierre Henry,
Section 25,
Connie Case,
Anthony Braxton,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker,
Bootsy Collins,
DNA,
The Count Five,
Gregory Isaacs,
Boredoms,
The Young Rascals,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.