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 Spain and from Spokane.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 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 Technova to the rock 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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator 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?
Toni Rubio,
The Grass Roots,
Radiohead,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pierre Henry,
The Five Americans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Arab on Radar,
Donny Hathaway,
K-Klass,
Black Bananas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Divine Comedy,
Marine Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
AZ,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Nik Kershaw,
Country Teasers,
Popol Vuh,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Chrome,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Wings,
The Mojo Men,
Saccharine Trust,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Prince Buster,
Joe Smooth,
Model 500,
John Lydon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tears for Fears,
Massinfluence,
R.M.O.,
The Real Kids,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Holt,
H. Thieme,
Leonard Cohen,
FM Einheit,
Boredoms,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Black Dice,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Nick Fraelich,
Scion,
Severed Heads,
Henry Cow,
Tres Demented,
The Move,
Eric Dolphy,
Clear Light,
The Skatalites,
Flash Fearless,
Jawbox,
Japan,
KRS-One,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.