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 Iceland and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a rhodes 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 snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gang Starr,
Jesper Dahlback,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Pretty Things,
Juan Atkins,
Deadbeat,
Scientists,
Ice-T,
Infiniti,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Blancmange,
Bobby Womack,
Marmalade,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deepchord,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lungfish,
New Order,
Soul II Soul,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sound Behaviour,
the Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
One Last Wish,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Althea and Donna,
Nation of Ulysses,
Slick Rick,
Pussy Galore,
Kenny Larkin,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Todd Terry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Nico,
Tommy Roe,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Radiohead,
Sex Pistols,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fall,
The Blackbyrds,
Motorama,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Blossom Toes,
John Coltrane,
Mars,
Cybotron,
Thompson Twins,
Swell Maps,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Beau Brummels,
Johnny Osbourne,
Anakelly,
Kayak,
The Modern Lovers,
Minor Threat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.