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 Egypt and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Salvador.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Connie Case to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yellowson,
John Holt,
The Real Kids,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dual Sessions,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Zapp,
Jawbox,
Bad Manners,
Toni Rubio,
X-102,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rod Modell,
Michelle Simonal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rapeman,
Scrapy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minny Pops,
Gabor Szabo,
The American Breed,
Carl Craig,
Thee Headcoats,
Lakeside,
Angry Samoans,
Slick Rick,
Yaz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sugar Minott,
Lebanon Hanover,
Howard Jones,
Tears for Fears,
The Mummies,
Adolescents,
Erasure,
Make Up,
The Buckinghams,
Little Man,
Donald Byrd,
Nas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Birthday Party,
The Invisible,
Technova,
Wire,
Groovy Waters,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Stooges,
Kayak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Robert Hood,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Icehouse,
Max Romeo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boz Scaggs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Supertramp,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.