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 Cambodia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Index to the rap 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar 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 guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Cecil Taylor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Junior Murvin,
Terry Callier,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Style,
AZ,
Sex Pistols,
Excepter,
Stereo Dub,
Iggy Pop,
Boredoms,
Drive Like Jehu,
Josef K,
Porter Ricks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rapeman,
Davy DMX,
Chrome,
Altered Images,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Japan,
Trumans Water,
Henry Cow,
Grey Daturas,
The Golliwogs,
Amazonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Swell Maps,
The Pretty Things,
The Evens,
Newcleus,
DJ Sneak,
Albert Ayler,
Bob Dylan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
Toni Rubio,
Accadde A,
EPMD,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The J.B.'s,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Associates,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Matthew Bourne,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Smog,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül,
Gang Gang Dance,
In Retrospect,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scion,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.