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 Armenia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eli Mardock to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin 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 synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Jawbox,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Malaria!,
Hardrive,
the Normal,
Gichy Dan,
Sixth Finger,
The Fire Engines,
Ken Boothe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Can,
Essential Logic,
Aswad,
Soulsonic Force,
Basic Channel,
Albert Ayler,
Davy DMX,
Dual Sessions,
Soft Cell,
China Crisis,
Black Bananas,
Fat Boys,
Electric Prunes,
Fluxion,
Chrome,
The Gun Club,
Skarface,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Schoolly D,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Kurtis Blow,
The Zeros,
Wire,
The American Breed,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Livin' Joy,
F. McDonald,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mary Jane Girls,
The J.B.'s,
Brick,
Darondo,
Pussy Galore,
Suicide,
The Cowsills,
E-Dancer,
The Tremeloes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camberwell Now,
Blossom Toes,
Monks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
These Immortal Souls,
ABC,
Grauzone,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.