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 Sri Lanka and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 AZ to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord 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 clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Josef K,
Roxette,
Sun City Girls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Seeds,
Heaven 17,
The Litter,
Tomorrow,
Pulsallama,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Age Steppers,
Idris Muhammad,
Theoretical Girls,
Barry Ungar,
The Dead C,
Negative Approach,
Groovy Waters,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wings,
Thee Headcoats,
Mo-Dettes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
48th St. Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Flamin' Groovies,
Charles Mingus,
John Cale,
The Misunderstood,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ponytail,
Soul II Soul,
The Sound,
The Moleskins,
DNA,
Trumans Water,
a-ha,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Görl,
Patti Smith,
June Days,
Pylon,
Minor Threat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gladiators,
Blake Baxter,
Circle Jerks,
Livin' Joy,
This Heat,
A Certain Ratio,
Lalann,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Starr,
Organ,
The Grass Roots,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.