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 Venezuela and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Section 25 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb 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 linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Basic Channel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grauzone,
Hoover,
Sugar Minott,
Ohio Players,
Judy Mowatt,
Monks,
Animal Collective,
A Certain Ratio,
Aaron Thompson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Bourne,
Mark Hollis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marmalade,
Second Layer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lower 48,
Derrick May,
Au Pairs,
The Pop Group,
The Blues Magoos,
David McCallum,
Mo-Dettes,
Hashim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Can,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Leonard Cohen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alphaville,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fela Kuti,
Cameo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Groovy Waters,
The Evens,
Smog,
Rod Modell,
John Foxx,
Television,
The Velvet Underground,
Altered Images,
Dorothy Ashby,
Section 25,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bill Near,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Althea and Donna,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pantaleimon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Swans,
the Normal,
Roger Hodgson,
10cc,
the Bar-Kays,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.