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 Nepal and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Malaria! 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Altered Images,
Pagans,
Bang On A Can,
The Doors,
The Slits,
UT,
Steve Hackett,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pere Ubu,
Echospace,
Y Pants,
Second Layer,
Jeff Lynne,
Girls At Our Best!,
David Axelrod,
Susan Cadogan,
Rotary Connection,
Pierre Henry,
Gabor Szabo,
Das Ding,
Ossler,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Knickerbockers,
Robert Görl,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ronnie Foster,
Tommy Roe,
The Cramps,
Rekid,
Babytalk,
Idris Muhammad,
Black Bananas,
Deadbeat,
Surgeon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Sound,
Interpol,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Birthday Party,
Marcia Griffiths,
Piero Umiliani,
Fatback Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wolf Eyes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
World's Most,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chrome,
Spoonie Gee,
The Electric Prunes,
Electric Prunes,
Don Cherry,
Eric Dolphy,
Eric Copeland,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.