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 Netherlands and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar 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 Y Pants to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe 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 guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun City Girls,
Masters at Work,
Dead Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Harmonia,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Thompson Twins,
Joey Negro,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stiv Bators,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scientists,
Motorama,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joensuu 1685,
Tommy Roe,
Kurtis Blow,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Alarm Clocks,
Icehouse,
Moby Grape,
Circle Jerks,
The Birthday Party,
The Index,
Soul II Soul,
The Dirtbombs,
Moss Icon,
Connie Case,
Lucky Dragons,
Rotary Connection,
Gabor Szabo,
The Buckinghams,
Nik Kershaw,
Procol Harum,
Underground Resistance,
Duran Duran,
The Angels of Light,
Mark Hollis,
Clear Light,
Funky Four + One,
Zero Boys,
Arcadia,
Nils Olav,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Aswad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ten City,
Nick Fraelich,
Ludus,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
X-102,
Iggy Pop,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.