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 Qatar and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 David Bowie 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 the Normal to the dance 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a synthesizer and a chamberlin 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
These Immortal Souls,
Black Bananas,
Loose Ends,
Scion,
The Busters,
The Music Machine,
Moss Icon,
The Mojo Men,
The Monochrome Set,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moebius,
Avey Tare,
The Real Kids,
the Human League,
The Leaves,
Alice Coltrane,
Prince Buster,
Albert Ayler,
Minor Threat,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marc Almond,
Ohio Players,
Howard Jones,
Funky Four + One,
Country Teasers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lower 48,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Last Poets,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
Fugazi,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Searchers,
The Index,
Rapeman,
Chris & Cosey,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joensuu 1685,
Yaz,
Oblivians,
The Knickerbockers,
John Coltrane,
the Soft Cell,
Fear,
Roxy Music,
The Electric Prunes,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Smoke,
The Martian,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Cell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Y Pants,
Accadde A,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.