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 Guatemala and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Johnny Clarke to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord 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 chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
the Normal,
Aloha Tigers,
Funkadelic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minnie Riperton,
Isaac Hayes,
Suburban Knight,
Au Pairs,
OOIOO,
Charles Mingus,
David McCallum,
Morten Harket,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Das Ding,
One Last Wish,
Underground Resistance,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Young Marble Giants,
Nils Olav,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Order,
Neu!,
48th St. Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mantronix,
Boz Scaggs,
The Slits,
Ponytail,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mars,
Black Moon,
Johnny Clarke,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Peter and Kerry,
Eden Ahbez,
DJ Style,
Fugazi,
Roxette,
Rites of Spring,
Urselle,
Negative Approach,
Scratch Acid,
The Wake,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minutemen,
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Shadows of Knight,
Warren Ellis,
Lightning Bolt,
the Human League,
Danielle Patucci,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.