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 Papua New Guinea and from Glasgow.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Vogues to the grime 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Pop Group,
Chris Corsano,
Sandy B,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
UT,
In Retrospect,
Quadrant,
The Smiths,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Audionom,
Amazonics,
Henry Cow,
Scratch Acid,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Japan,
The Dead C,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lightning Bolt,
Nico,
Magma,
Ronnie Foster,
Erasure,
The Stooges,
T.S.O.L.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cowsills,
Letta Mbulu,
Circle Jerks,
Goldenarms,
Rufus Thomas,
Bush Tetras,
8 Eyed Spy,
Procol Harum,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Fraelich,
The Techniques,
Boz Scaggs,
The Velvet Underground,
The Offenders,
Jesper Dahlback,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dennis Brown,
Flash Fearless,
The Star Department,
Flipper,
The Residents,
Charles Mingus,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.