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 Austria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ralphi Rosario to the dance 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 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 oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Excepter,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yusef Lateef,
Little Man,
Public Enemy,
The Skatalites,
The Black Dice,
The Motions,
Scan 7,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Angry Samoans,
Anakelly,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Velvet Underground,
Alison Limerick,
Freddie Wadling,
Heaven 17,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gong,
Interpol,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Blancmange,
Japan,
Brass Construction,
Crash Course in Science,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Black Moon,
The Searchers,
Kenny Larkin,
Judy Mowatt,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
The Mojo Men,
Rites of Spring,
Hashim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
Carl Craig,
X-Ray Spex,
The Zeros,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Trojans,
Maleditus Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Talk Talk,
Kas Product,
The Star Department,
Sugar Minott,
Boredoms,
Buzzcocks,
Eden Ahbez,
Steve Hackett,
Technova,
Marc Almond,
Erasure,
Laurel Aitken,
Parry Music,
Rhythm & Sound,
Adolescents,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.