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 Palau and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Eve St. Jones,
Crispian St. Peters,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Steve Hackett,
The Leaves,
Fad Gadget,
Con Funk Shun,
Yazoo,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Visage,
The Stooges,
the Swans,
The Dead C,
Hoover,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fall,
Graham Central Station,
Cymande,
Underground Resistance,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Urselle,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Womack,
U.S. Maple,
The Grass Roots,
Janne Schatter,
The Offenders,
Deepchord,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Television,
Animal Collective,
Metal Thangz,
Barbara Tucker,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Al Stewart,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Victims,
Little Man,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Associates,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eurythmics,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Order,
Dual Sessions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Throbbing Gristle,
Barclay James Harvest,
Crispy Ambulance,
Circle Jerks,
the Soft Cell,
The Misunderstood,
Pylon,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
CMW,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.