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 Bolivia and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the 808 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 Lakeside to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer 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 spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neu!,
Tubeway Army,
The Monochrome Set,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ludus,
The Gories,
Crooked Eye,
David Bowie,
The Modern Lovers,
Magazine,
Gastr Del Sol,
New Order,
Fugazi,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Holt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nils Olav,
Barry Ungar,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roxette,
Freddie Wadling,
Rakim,
Young Marble Giants,
L. Decosne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kurtis Blow,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang Gang Dance,
Matthew Halsall,
Cheater Slicks,
Infiniti,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Banda Bassotti,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Machine,
Index,
The Slackers,
Faraquet,
Jeff Lynne,
Fatback Band,
The Trojans,
Pantytec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ohio Players,
Dave Gahan,
The Stooges,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Drexciya,
The Moody Blues,
The Durutti Column,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Danielle Patucci,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.