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 Vanuatu and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 mellotron 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 a-ha 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare 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 harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
Tears for Fears,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Shoche,
Johnny Osbourne,
Section 25,
The Sonics,
The Techniques,
The Gories,
Visage,
Sun City Girls,
Surgeon,
MDC,
Cecil Taylor,
Sparks,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Raincoats,
Schoolly D,
The Evens,
Bauhaus,
Moby Grape,
Jeff Mills,
The Smiths,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Normal,
Minutemen,
the Slits,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Aaron Thompson,
Donald Byrd,
Rites of Spring,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Joe Smooth,
F. McDonald,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Erasure,
Jimmy McGriff,
CMW,
Au Pairs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Altered Images,
Hasil Adkins,
Rufus Thomas,
The Walker Brothers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Organ,
Groovy Waters,
The Associates,
The Fire Engines,
Carl Craig,
ABBA,
The Blackbyrds,
Junior Murvin,
Rosa Yemen,
Interpol,
Warsaw,
Lindisfarne,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Sherman,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.