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 Poland and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Heaven 17 to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Glenn Branca,
Ultravox,
The Angels of Light,
Adolescents,
Chris & Cosey,
Eli Mardock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Average White Band,
Josef K,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cameo,
Massinfluence,
Derrick Morgan,
Panda Bear,
Chris Corsano,
Radiohead,
Eddi Front,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television Personalities,
Crime,
Circle Jerks,
Stereo Dub,
World's Most,
KRS-One,
the Human League,
Intrusion,
L. Decosne,
Infiniti,
U.S. Maple,
The Zeros,
The Slackers,
Henry Cow,
Whodini,
Jacob Miller,
the Swans,
Scientists,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultimate Spinach,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Blackbyrds,
The Barracudas,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Hill,
Cal Tjader,
The Knickerbockers,
Sister Nancy,
The Seeds,
Joyce Sims,
Desert Stars,
The Five Americans,
Dawn Penn,
the Association,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ossler,
kango's stein massive,
Ludus,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.