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 East Timor and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Girls At Our Best! to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Reuben Wilson,
Yellowson,
The Monks,
Robert Görl,
Minny Pops,
Grauzone,
Pulsallama,
Buzzcocks,
Aural Exciters,
Mad Mike,
Talk Talk,
Judy Mowatt,
ABBA,
UT,
Cybotron,
Kayak,
Niagra,
Das Ding,
Graham Central Station,
Cheater Slicks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Terry,
Amon Düül II,
Zero Boys,
The Black Dice,
Wings,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Offenders,
The Victims,
the Soft Cell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Don Cherry,
Boredoms,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gichy Dan,
Absolute Body Control,
Mantronix,
Sugar Minott,
Agitation Free,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Unrelated Segments,
Fela Kuti,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barrington Levy,
Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mars,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare,
The Fuzztones,
Supertramp,
The Kinks,
Slick Rick,
Porter Ricks,
Spoonie Gee,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.