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 Tonga and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro 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 a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Ten City,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ice-T,
Infiniti,
Theoretical Girls,
Wire,
Eve St. Jones,
Anakelly,
Sex Pistols,
Model 500,
Lungfish,
Ultravox,
Tropical Tobacco,
H. Thieme,
Godley & Creme,
Gabor Szabo,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dead Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Pagans,
The Names,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brothers Johnson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Beau Brummels,
Aaron Thompson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sound,
Cal Tjader,
The Remains,
Graham Central Station,
Ronan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Moby Grape,
The Fuzztones,
Index,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker,
The American Breed,
Heaven 17,
ABBA,
Colin Newman,
Dual Sessions,
Ornette Coleman,
The Sonics,
The Blues Magoos,
Jeff Lynne,
Jeff Mills,
MC5,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Liliput,
Fluxion,
Pole,
Darondo,
A Certain Ratio,
Warsaw,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.