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 Azerbaijan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Electric Prunes to the crunk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba 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 synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Barclay James Harvest,
F. McDonald,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Monochrome Set,
Grauzone,
Monks,
Harmonia,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gregory Isaacs,
Davy DMX,
Tubeway Army,
Sällskapet,
Banda Bassotti,
Bootsy Collins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Trumans Water,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Magazine,
Al Stewart,
Lindisfarne,
Eric Dolphy,
The Names,
ABBA,
DJ Style,
Aural Exciters,
Sonic Youth,
Babytalk,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camberwell Now,
Darondo,
Avey Tare,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker,
Ponytail,
Technova,
New Order,
The Count Five,
The Fugs,
Junior Murvin,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Swans,
The Monks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Television,
The Black Dice,
The Index,
Q and Not U,
Black Bananas,
The Music Machine,
The Associates,
New York Dolls,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.