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 Liberia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ultravox to the jazz 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare 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 snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Monochrome Set,
Bobby Womack,
Lungfish,
Man Parrish,
Scrapy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Leonard Cohen,
OOIOO,
Gang of Four,
Roy Ayers,
Ronan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Red Krayola,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Model 500,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crooked Eye,
Desert Stars,
The Wake,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grandmaster Flash,
MC5,
The Offenders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Livin' Joy,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
Cybotron,
Terry Callier,
Donny Hathaway,
X-Ray Spex,
Scratch Acid,
Yusef Lateef,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joy Division,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wire,
UT,
Yazoo,
Outsiders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Rosa Yemen,
Urselle,
Brand Nubian,
John Cale,
Soulsonic Force,
Joey Negro,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Human League,
Faraquet,
Hot Snakes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultravox,
Moebius,
Lyres,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.