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 Lesotho and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe 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 rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
The Count Five,
Ten City,
The Techniques,
Idris Muhammad,
Lightning Bolt,
Youth Brigade,
Colin Newman,
UT,
Girls At Our Best!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Slick Rick,
Cecil Taylor,
Television,
The Detroit Cobras,
New Age Steppers,
Simply Red,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quando Quango,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Golliwogs,
Scan 7,
Joy Division,
Joensuu 1685,
Davy DMX,
Amon Düül,
X-101,
Black Bananas,
Severed Heads,
Accadde A,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Das Ding,
Eric Dolphy,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flipper,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Half Japanese,
Easy Going,
Warren Ellis,
Fat Boys,
Terry Callier,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Juan Atkins,
Television Personalities,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minny Pops,
Al Stewart,
L. Decosne,
ABC,
The Real Kids,
Lee Hazlewood,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Star Department,
Visage,
Isaac Hayes,
H. Thieme,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cluster,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.