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 Croatia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Hardrive to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kayak,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mantronix,
David Axelrod,
Oblivians,
Peter & Gordon,
Iggy Pop,
The Stooges,
Minnie Riperton,
The Evens,
The Divine Comedy,
The J.B.'s,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Red Krayola,
Quando Quango,
Kurtis Blow,
Mission of Burma,
the Germs,
Michelle Simonal,
China Crisis,
Nation of Ulysses,
LL Cool J,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller,
Icehouse,
Agitation Free,
Monolake,
Pole,
Silicon Teens,
Porter Ricks,
Maleditus Sound,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sam Rivers,
Bronski Beat,
Alton Ellis,
Monks,
The Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stiv Bators,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Sheep,
Erykah Badu,
The Durutti Column,
Banda Bassotti,
Howard Jones,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aswad,
Sun City Girls,
Mo-Dettes,
Ultravox,
Metal Thangz,
Ituana,
Ten City,
Zero Boys,
Dual Sessions,
Half Japanese,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.