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 Cuba and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mark Hollis to the disco 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare 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 harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
The Index,
Mo-Dettes,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Circle Jerks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Martian,
Jeff Lynne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vainqueur,
Camberwell Now,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kerri Chandler,
The Smiths,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Monochrome Set,
Yaz,
Funky Four + One,
Moby Grape,
Charles Mingus,
Leonard Cohen,
Main Source,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hardrive,
Matthew Bourne,
The Searchers,
the Swans,
the Normal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DNA,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Japan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Animal Collective,
Lalo Schifrin,
Graham Central Station,
The Durutti Column,
Isaac Hayes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Robert Wyatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Order,
Kas Product,
Ronan,
The Skatalites,
The Angels of Light,
Sound Behaviour,
Tubeway Army,
Cameo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harpers Bizarre,
FM Einheit,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alphaville,
Q65,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.