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 Switzerland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rosa Yemen to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin 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 theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Essential Logic,
Duran Duran,
Hasil Adkins,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Monks,
Von Mondo,
48th St. Collective,
Marc Almond,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Loose Ends,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nico,
Public Enemy,
Lalann,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Chrome,
Scratch Acid,
the Normal,
Gong,
Unrelated Segments,
The Raincoats,
In Retrospect,
Steve Hackett,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dark Day,
Minor Threat,
June Days,
Marmalade,
Funky Four + One,
The Real Kids,
X-102,
Mandrill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gichy Dan,
Pole,
Albert Ayler,
Arcadia,
Alphaville,
Nas,
The Pop Group,
Black Flag,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
a-ha,
U.S. Maple,
Ultravox,
the Swans,
David Bowie,
Lower 48,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Wake,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rakim,
Andrew Hill,
ABBA,
Aswad,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.