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 St Lucia and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pere Ubu to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ 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 oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
E-Dancer,
The Blues Magoos,
Zero Boys,
Ossler,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Moby Grape,
Morten Harket,
The Gories,
Fela Kuti,
Cameo,
Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Qualms,
Roy Ayers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
KRS-One,
Scan 7,
Donny Hathaway,
Bang On A Can,
Gabor Szabo,
Boredoms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang of Four,
Darondo,
New Order,
48th St. Collective,
The Slits,
Bob Dylan,
Subhumans,
Alice Coltrane,
World's Most,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ken Boothe,
Shoche,
DJ Sneak,
Pagans,
Angry Samoans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Siglo XX,
Smog,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Surgeon,
Eddi Front,
Bauhaus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camberwell Now,
H. Thieme,
Pet Shop Boys,
Duran Duran,
Mo-Dettes,
Sällskapet,
The Beau Brummels,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.