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 Belize and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Moebius to the jazz 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes 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 a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Soulsonic Force,
Slick Rick,
John Foxx,
The Doors,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Masters at Work,
kango's stein massive,
Tubeway Army,
Howard Jones,
Minor Threat,
Janne Schatter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Monolake,
Nick Fraelich,
Delta 5,
The Sonics,
Laurel Aitken,
Graham Central Station,
Chris Corsano,
Rhythm & Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Electric Prunes,
Boz Scaggs,
Vainqueur,
Bill Near,
X-101,
Bluetip,
Marvin Gaye,
the Germs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kurtis Blow,
Max Romeo,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Standells,
Deadbeat,
Drexciya,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mummies,
Can,
The Monks,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Byrd,
Erykah Badu,
The Index,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Althea and Donna,
Animal Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
48th St. Collective,
Black Bananas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Visage,
Babytalk,
Stockholm Monsters,
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.